George Bernard Shaw

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Men who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep. Who dare while others fly.They build a nation’s pillars deep. And lift them to the sky.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Self-command is the main discipline.

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

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good – and less trouble!

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

An empire is an immense egotism.