George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

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

You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’- yours.

I hate women because they always know where things are.