1. What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
2. 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.
3. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
4. There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
5. When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
6. Poverty does not produce unhappiness: it produces degradation.
7. Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
-George Bernard Shaw
