"You have learnt something. That always feels..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”

“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”

“I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.”

“People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.”

“It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.”

“When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.”

“Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;And after summer evermore succeedsBarren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.”

“Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.”

“Good people are found, not changed.”