You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask, if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering, that is familiar.

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you, if you realized how seldom they do.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.

Good art inspires Good design motivates.

Every gay guys GPS system would tell him to go straight.

I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.