George Bernard Shaw

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

Be confident, not certain

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Friends are thieves of time.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage – the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world – and never will.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.