George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Already know you that which you need.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Whether he knew it or not, the life he lived was his penance. Punishing himself, for what he believes are his sins. Consciously or subconsciously, he creates the world he lives in. Never believing that he is deserving happiness, deserving joy. His self-destructive nature, in his eyes, and his eyes only, is justified. Everyone is deserving absolution, but he needs to understand, that he is the only one able to forgive himself.

Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’- yours.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.