George Bernard Shaw

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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

A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Events tend to recur in cycles…

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.