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

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

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.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

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

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

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.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

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

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

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.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

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?

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

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.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

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.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.