George Bernard Shaw

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Power doesn’t corrupt people; people corrupt power.