George Bernard Shaw

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life … would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

The way to do well is to do well.

Here’s the thing: the world is not going to issue you an engraved invitation to this life.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

Ignorance… is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.