Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

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

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

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

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

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

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

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.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

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

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Never get out of bed before noon.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!