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.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

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?‘

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

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

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.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

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?

I’m tender on the inside.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

Man, I really like Vegas.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

To live is to think.

I’ve been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I’m getting really tired of Disneyland.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

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.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

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.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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 I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

What a nice night for an evening.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

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

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.