George Bernard Shaw

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

Love is the absence of judgment.

Women should serve men. Men should serve women. Any house of peace is full of servants.

Spread love everywhere you go let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

He’s out his head, I’m out my mind. We got that love, the crazy kind.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them-we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.