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

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.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

I like to let things breathe.

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

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

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

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

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.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

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.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

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

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

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.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

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

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

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.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

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

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.