A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.