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

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

The people in my songs are all me.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

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.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

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

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

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.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I’m talking about myself very directly.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

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

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

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.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

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

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.