George Bernard Shaw

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

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

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.

The listlessness of it all, the profit off depression, the extinction of an entire species, the chlorinated connections- poisoned just to appear clean.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.