He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

It is important to remember yourself.

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

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

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

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

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

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

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

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.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

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 was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Mind over mattress.

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?

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

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.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

I don’t like being alone.

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

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

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

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.