George Bernard Shaw

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.