George Bernard Shaw

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I always feel excited when I can do something that’s about what I believe in.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.