I’ve had sleep paralysis.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

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.

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

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

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.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

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

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

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.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

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

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 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.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

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.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

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

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

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

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

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

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

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

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.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

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

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known – Nominee Barry Goldwater.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I’m addicted to placebos.

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

All of our problems start in our minds.

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

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.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

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

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.

Hermits have no peer pressure.