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

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

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

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

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

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

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.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

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.

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.

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.

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

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

Hatred is settled anger.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

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

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

I’m addicted to placebos.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

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.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

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

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

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.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

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.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

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

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

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

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

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.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

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.