It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

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

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

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

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‚I am deaf.‘ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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

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

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

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

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

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

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

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.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Sleep is the best meditation.

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

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

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

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

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.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

Study men, not historians.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

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