Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

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.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

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

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There’s a thing in psychology where they think if it’s popular, it can’t be serious.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

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.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

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.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

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.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

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

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.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.