And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Make peace with what is.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

Where I create, there I am true.

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.