George Bernard Shaw

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

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

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.

Think with your whole body.

For every why he had a wherefore.