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

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

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

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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

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

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

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

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

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

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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

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

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don’t want to open up my cornflakes and find that they’re full of pebbles… You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn’t.

Hatred is settled anger.

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.

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.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Mind over mattress.

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

Meditation helps me to calm down.

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.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Hatred is self-punishment.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

I don’t like being alone.

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

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I like Aurora, ‚Sleeping Beauty,‘ because she’s just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life – lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

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

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

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

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

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