George Bernard Shaw

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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 censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

The gap that’s opened I’m filling with fairy dust, hues of the heart and a joy for life what was… I invite to exit right quietly, in shades of black and white.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Standing on the doorstep of desire, I hold this bouquet like a gun and these vows like a petition for the death penalty.