Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.