George Bernard Shaw

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better

How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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