The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, ‚Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it’s definitely happening,‘ but they don’t feel that they can do anything about it; they don’t even think ‚Well let’s stop it!‘

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

Girls are soft and pretty.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

I think I’ve revived the costume-jewelry industry.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.