George Bernard Shaw

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

There is no reality, only perception.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

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

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don’t stop until you’ve filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don’t need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends’ accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.