Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable. - George Bernard Shaw

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

People will have their miracles, their stories, their heroes and heroines and saints and martyrs and divinities to exercise their gifts of affection, admiration, wonder, and worship, and their Judases and devils to enable them to be angry and yet feel that they do well to be angry. Every one of these legends is the common heritage of the human race; and there is only one inexorable condition attached to their healthy enjoyment, which is that no one shall believe them literally. The reading of stories and delighting in them made Don Quixote a gentleman: the believing them literally made him a madman who slew lambs instead of feeding them.

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