George Bernard Shaw

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

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ”

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. ”

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous. ”

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ”

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ”

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ”

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider! ”

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ”