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

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

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

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.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

I don’t understand what it’s all about or what’s worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

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

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

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

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I’m addicted to placebos.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

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.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

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

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

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

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

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

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

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.

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

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

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.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

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

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.