Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

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!

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

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

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

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.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

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

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

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.

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.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

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

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

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.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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.

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?

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

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.

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

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

Hatred is self-punishment.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

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

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.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

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.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

I’m happiest with my family around me.