When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

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

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

I like to take it easy.

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.

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.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

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

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

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.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

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.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

I like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken.

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.

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.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

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 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.

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

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

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

It’s hard for a player to plan for the future, especially in a game like football.

You can never plan the future by the past.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

I will never retire unless I have to.

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.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

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

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.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

I like talking. I like acting.

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.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

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.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

I like my fair share of board games.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

I have a garden in my backyard that’s completely organic, which I’m very proud of.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

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 have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

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

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.