The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

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

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

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

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

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.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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 really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

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

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

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.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.