Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

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.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

An index is a great leveller.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

I take my sleep very, very important.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

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.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

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

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

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

Sleep is the best meditation.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

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.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Men want to make women happy.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

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.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

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

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

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

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.