A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. - George Bernard Shaw

"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."