Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I think that I’m perfect.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

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

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

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

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

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.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I don’t like being alone.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

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

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Few people realize that luck is created.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

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

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.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Hatred is settled anger.

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.