George Bernard Shaw

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?