For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

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.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

We’ve got to keep our eye on what’s happening with Russia and North Korea. We cannot lose sight of domestic policy, either. Healthcare. Immigration. Climate change.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

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

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

The first wealth is health.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

Mind over mattress.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

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

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

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

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

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!