A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

I take my sleep very, very important.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

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.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. Because I’m not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing I could do to stop it.

It is important to remember yourself.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

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.

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.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

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?‘

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

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.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

We never love a person, but only qualities.