George Bernard Shaw

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

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence – neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish – it is an imponderably valuable gift.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.