Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.