Dr. Albert Schweitzer......

Many years ago at Chicago Railway Station, senior officials and reporters were awaiting the arrival of a Nobel Prize winner. As the big man got off the train, cameras were flashing furiously. City officials were stretching to shake hands and tell him how honoured they were to meet him. Having thanked them, he excused himself for a moment, walked briskly through the crowd and picked up the bags of an elderly woman who was struggling. He escorted her, carrying her bags to the bus and wished her a safe journey. He then came back to the crowd and said, “Sorry to have kept you waiting.” The man was the world famous Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Having seen this, a member of the reception committee said tone of the reporters, “That’s the first time I ever saw a sermon walking.”

George Bernard Shaw…..

Once George Bernard Shaw asked a socialite if she would spend a night with him for a thousand pounds. The socialite snapped and said, “I am a respectable married woman. How dare you have the guts to ask me that!” Bernard asked, “How about ten thousand pounds?” This time she exploded threatening to call her husband. Still persistent, he offered a million pounds with the assurance that nobody would ever find out. This time, she said ‘perhaps’.

“What if I were to offer you only ten pounds?” he asked. “Mr. Shaw, you are insulting me!” the woman was shocked. “Who do you think am I?”

“We have already established who you are,” he pointed out calmly, “Now we are only haggling over the price.”