What a nice night for an evening.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

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.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

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.

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

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

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.

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

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

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.

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.

I like to take it easy.

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.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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.

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.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

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.

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

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

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

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

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.

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

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

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.

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

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

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

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

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, ‚I like your tie,‘ to a man… or, ‚I like your country because the weather’s good,‘ or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.