I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

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

I’m addicted to placebos.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

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.

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

Hatred is inveterate anger.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Sleep is the best meditation.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

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

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

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

I don’t digest things with my mind.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

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

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.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

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

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

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.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

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?

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

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.

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

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

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.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

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.

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.

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

Meditation helps me to calm down.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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 brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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.

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

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

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

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.