Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… 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.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I’m addicted to placebos.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

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

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

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.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

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

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

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

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.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

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

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

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.