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

Where fear is, happiness is not.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

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.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

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.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

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

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

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don’t want to open up my cornflakes and find that they’re full of pebbles… You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn’t.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

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

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

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

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

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.

I don’t like being alone.

I like Aurora, ‚Sleeping Beauty,‘ because she’s just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life – lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don’t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

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

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

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

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

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.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly 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.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

Mind over mattress.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

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

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.