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.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.

Hatred is settled anger.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

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.

Big Brother is watching you.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

I don’t have many sad days.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

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 read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

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.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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?

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

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

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

I don’t digest things with my mind.