George Bernard Shaw

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

In charity there is no excess.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Choose people who lift you up.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.