If I panic, everyone else panics.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

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

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

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.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

Mind over mattress.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

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

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

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.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

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.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

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

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

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

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

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

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

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.

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

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.

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

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Sleep is the best meditation.

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

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

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

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

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.