George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.

We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one’s ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they’ve made, and that’s OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don’t make them over and over again, you’re on the right path.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

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

Live, let live, and help live

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, — for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only, — for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man’s body were to be divided into two parts, we are all one flesh and blood.