Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

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.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

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

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

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

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

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

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

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.

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.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

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

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

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.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

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.

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

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

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

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

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.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.