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

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.

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

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Hatred is self-punishment.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

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

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

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.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

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

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

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.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

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

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.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

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

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

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

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

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