George Bernard Shaw

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.

All I want to do is change the world.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with? When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.