Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

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

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.