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.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

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

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

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

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

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

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?

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

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

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

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.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

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.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

I don’t care about hate and threats from climate crisis deniers. I just ignore them.

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

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

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

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

To live is to think.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

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

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

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

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

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

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.