Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

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.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

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.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

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

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

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

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

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

Meditation helps me to calm down.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

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

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

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

Precaution is better than cure.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

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.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

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

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.