On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health. We cannot ask for more from any system; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.