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

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

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

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

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.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

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

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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.

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?

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

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

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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

Meditation helps me to calm down.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

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

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I like to let things breathe.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

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

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

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

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

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.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

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

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

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

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

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

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.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

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

My imagination is a twisted place.

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.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

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.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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

Even paranoids have real enemies.