All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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

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.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

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

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

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.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

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.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

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

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

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

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

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.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

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?

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.