I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Love is trembling happiness.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

I like to let things breathe.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Take my wife… Please!

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Friends are thieves of time.