What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

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

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

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.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

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

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

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

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

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

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

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.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.