George Bernard Shaw

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Syllables govern the world.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Truth is a naked and open daylight.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.