"A man learns to skate by staggering..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .”

“All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!”

“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”

“Read much, but not too many books.”

“The further back I look, the further forward I can see.”

“Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.”

“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”

“It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!”