George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Life too near paralyses art.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

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

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”- Shayne Mcclendon

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.