George Bernard Shaw

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you’ve taught him everything else first?

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don’t have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world–and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.