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

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

It is important to remember yourself.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

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.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

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 made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Be as you wish to seem.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

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.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

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

I think I have always had a little humor.

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.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

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?

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Every man is his own hell.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

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.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.