Craig Ferguson Quotes

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

The show is 'Fix My Life!' Get it? Life. I do not fix people.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

Self improvement is masturbation.

I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

I ain't done nothing wrong, but love thy self. And harm other niggaz that wanna stop my health.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for me, the idea of giving someone else the gift of inspiration and making them feel passionate and capable in an area of their life is the most incredible thing in the world.

I think it's so important, as young women, to have relationships, especially when you're in your early 20s. But it's always so important to focus on yourself.

When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw when I read yours? - Sam No. And I don't want to know. - Poppy I saw a girl who races to help others but doesn't help herself. And right now you need to help yourself. No one should walk up the aisle feeling inferior or in a different league or trying to be something they're not. - Sam

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.

I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family?

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

Therapy's like going to the gym.

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.