My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.