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

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

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

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

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.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

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

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

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

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

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

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

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

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

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.

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.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

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?

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

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

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

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

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

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.