I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

You have to be careful not to get overexposed.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

If you know yourself, you are doomed.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.