The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

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

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

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

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

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

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

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.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

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

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

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.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Nature does nothing in vain.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

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.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

People want to feel hopeful.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

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.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

Life well spent is long.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.