George Bernard Shaw

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

Knowledge is power.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.