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

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.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

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

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

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?

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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

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

To live is to think.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

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

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.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

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

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

The first wealth is health.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

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

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

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.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

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

I’m perpetually lonely.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

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

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.