For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

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

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

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.

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.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

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

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I don’t exercise.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you’d quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.