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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonisi

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw 4

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

Syllables govern the world. George Bernard

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it,

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for youâ€™ll get nothing else.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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

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

There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' George Bernard

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Sha

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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