George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

The self divides into ten billion distinct illuminating spirits. Distinguish these without falling into names and classifications.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

If you learn to practice love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, you will know how to heal the illnesses of anger, sorrow, insecurity, sadness, hatred, loneliness, and unhealthy attachments.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life — some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed — because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.