Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

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.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

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

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

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

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

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

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

I like to let things breathe.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

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

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

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

I came up from a difficult background.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

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.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

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.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

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

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!