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

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

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

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

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I am in my own head most of the time.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

I’m much healthier now.

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

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

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

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

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

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Never get out of bed before noon.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

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

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 love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

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

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

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

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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

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.

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

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.