When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.