George Bernard Shaw

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Such as take lodgings in a head that’s to be let unfurnished.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.