George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

What drives me to be who I am, to do all that I do, is not what words will be engraved for my epitaph. What drives me to be who I am, to do what I do, is not vanity, is not for adulation in the eyes of others. What drives me is my own desire to be better; to be happy. When I am dead and buried, the words above will not bring me back to life, I choose to live out my epitaph, and not just for it to be a collection of words someone has chosen to define me.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone… I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

You’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.