What a nice night for an evening.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Sleep is the best meditation.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Never get out of bed before noon.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck… and then we just go for a drive. That’s it!

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

I love the sea.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.