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

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

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

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

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.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

I’m an emotional person.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

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?

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Hatred is self-punishment.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

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

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I don’t have many sad days.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

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

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Of course I get hurt.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

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

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

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

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.