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

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

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

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

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

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

As you think, so shall you become.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

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.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

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

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

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

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

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

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

I disagree with everything I used to say.

I owe my solitude to other people.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

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.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

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.

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.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.