When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

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

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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.

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.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

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

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 can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

It is important to remember yourself.

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.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

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

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

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

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.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Love is a serious mental disease.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

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.

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 hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

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

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

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.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

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.

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.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

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

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I don’t like being alone.