In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Mind over mattress.

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

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about 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.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I don’t like being alone.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

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

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

Where fear is, happiness is not.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

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.

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

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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

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.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

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.

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.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

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

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

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

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

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.

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.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

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

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.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

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

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.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

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.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

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.

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.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

All of our problems start in our minds.

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

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.