George Bernard Shaw

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.