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

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains and certain aspects of our system pertain to it which are not dependent on any political party. In this sense, the Crown is the consecrated spirit of Canada.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

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