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

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we’re so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it’s not going to be around forever.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

What a nice night for an evening.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

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

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

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.

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!

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I like my fair share of board games.

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.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

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.

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.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

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

Never get out of bed before noon.

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

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

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.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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

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

I got my buzz from playing.

Sleep is the best meditation.

As for hobbies, I don’t really read or watch TV.

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.

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.

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

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

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.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

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

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.

Only you can control your future.

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

I don’t race cars.

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

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

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.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I don’t like to be bored.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

I became a beach bum.

When you’re climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.