The Book, Like The Bicycle,

Bernard Shaw Remains The Only Model We Have Of What The Citizen Of A Democracy Should Be: An Informed Participant In All Things We Deem Important To The Society And The Individual.

Seeing Clearly Within Himself And Always Able To Dodge Around The Ends Of Any Position, Including His Own, Shaw Assumed From The Start The Dual Role Of Prophet And Gadfly. To His Contemporaries It Appeared Frivolous And Contradictory To Perform As Both Superman And Socialist, Sceptic And Believer, Legalist And Heretic, High-brow And Mob-orator. But Feeling The Duty To Teach As Well As To Mirror Mankind, Shaw Did Not Accept Himself As A Contradictory Being.

I'll Read, And Then I'll Take Naps. When I Feel Sleep Coming On, I Give In And Don't Fight It.

Old Age Is Like Learning A New Profession. And Not One Of Your Own Choosing.

A Student Under My Care Owes His First Allegiance To Himself And Not To My Specialty; And Must Not Be Burdened With My Work As If He Followed No Other And Had Contracted No Obligation Under Heaven But That Of Satisfying My Requirements.