George Bernard Shaw

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life into one of art.

Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

The ordinary mind is the way.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

I love learning about different religions, and discovering the different ways to worship, and to love the greatness and the higher being that surrounds us all. I definitely believe in a bigger presence, and I really respect all religions; at their core they all teach the same message – community and kindness and looking out for each other.

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.