Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

I’m addicted to placebos.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

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.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

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

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

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

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

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.

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

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.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

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.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‚I am deaf.‘ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

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

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

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

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

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.