All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

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

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

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

Hermits have no peer pressure.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

If you’re working for a good company and you’re happy there, and you’re being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

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

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

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.