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

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

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.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I don’t have many sad days.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

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

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

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

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

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

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.

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

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I was called ‚Dumbo,‘ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

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

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

A woman has the age she deserves.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.