The dieting wars have got to stop.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

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

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in school lunches? You don’t have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn’t make much sense.

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.

Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

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.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

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

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

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

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

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

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

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

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.