George Bernard Shaw

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

People create their own experiences.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.