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Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Everything changes but change.

It takes two men to make one brother.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

New York is the great stone desert.

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

The cold cut like a many bladed knife

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own.

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.

There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul ...

O God ... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

Let us start a new religion with one commandment, Enjoy thyself.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!