"Perhaps the greatest social service that can..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”

“Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.”

“But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.”

“No matter how old you get, hug and kiss your mother whenever you greet her.”

“I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.”

“Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.”

“I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.”

“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.”

“A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.”