George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

What is once well done is done forever.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.