India, Feb. 5 -- Born in Ireland in 1856, George Bernard Shaw was, among other things, an author, a playwright, a critic, an intellectual, a socialist, and an activist. He was also the first person to win both an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize for literature.

Shaw was a man of exceptional wit and humour, which was well reflected in his literary works, which include plays such as Pygmalion, Arms and the Man, and Man and Superman. Today's quote of the day belongs to the latter play.

The play Man and Superman tells the story of a self-proclaimed misogynist and socialist, John Tanner, who is forced to give in to the headstrong woman, Ann Whitefield's proposal of marriage, as he realises that it is in essence the "Life Force" at work that p...