She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

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?

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Life well spent is long.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

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

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

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.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

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

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

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

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing – not the ‚what happens‘ but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

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

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.