The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

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.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

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.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

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 I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

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.

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

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

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

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

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

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.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

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

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

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

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

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

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.