There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Quotations
George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
