"I wish I was somebody else except me."

"It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest."

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it.

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.