George Bernard Shaw

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Property is organized robbery.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows – it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.

Whatever you have spend less.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.