We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

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

We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way