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.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

One of the great attractions of patriotism

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.