O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.

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 wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in its own complexity; the humorous-tragic questionings of the universe; the delicious travel-pictures and fantasies; the lucid criticisms of art, and politics, and philosophy, informed with malicious wisdom, shimmering with poetry and wit.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.