If I panic, everyone else panics.

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.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

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

Mind over mattress.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

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.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

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.

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

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

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.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

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

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

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.

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

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

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

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

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

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

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.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

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

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

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

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.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

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

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

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.

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?‘

I’m perpetually lonely.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

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

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.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

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

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.