George Bernard Shaw

Very few people can afford to be poor.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it….

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

[On his mother] She certainly ran her own race… I thought my mother was nuts.

My grandma is probably the only person on this planet that I still remember their home number by heart

My daughter hasn’t seen me with anybody in five years. I’m very, very selective when it comes to that because I want to make sure that it’s real. I don’t want her to see me with just anybody because she means everything to me.

I want my sons to grow up in a world where they’d never think boys are better than girls or that black is better than white.

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess – she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn’t be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

The times when Barack and I are at our most relaxed are when we invite some friends over who we have known forever. And you put a little music on top of that? Some good food? It renews your spirit to get back in the game.

Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were.

My mother’s a psychologist, my stepfather’s a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad’s a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.