One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

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

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

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

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

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.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

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.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

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.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

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

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me 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.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Never get out of bed before noon.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.