George Bernard Shaw

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.