While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.