George Bernard Shaw

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we’re so fond of it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Round numbers are always false.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.