George Bernard Shaw

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn’t actually fall down.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

There is only one universal passion fear.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of the ways we learn.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with? When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Amuse not thy self therefore with the numerous Opinions of the World, nor value thy self upon verbal Orthodoxy, Philosophy, or thy Skill in Tongues, or Knowledge of the Fathers; (too much the Business and Vanity of the World). But in this rejoyce, That thou knowest God, that is the Lord, who exerciseth loving Kindness, and Judgment; and Righteousness in the Earth.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.