Hermits have no peer pressure.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

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

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

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

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

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.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

All of our problems start in our minds.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

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.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

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.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

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

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

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

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

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

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

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.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

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

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.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

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

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.

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.