"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.

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

I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes

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

Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.