George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

A man is as old as his arteries.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

The think I remember most about Brooklyn was how much I wanted to get out of Brooklyn.

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

Wide awake and so confused.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

“He who angers you, conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.

There’s no limit to the things you can do.