We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.
I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home.
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal.
I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
