The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

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

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.