George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Kindness, love, strength and determination personified!! Madiba reminds me that everything is possible!

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought – an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first – that is the idea.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.