George Bernard Shaw

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Lilac anemone, paper petals, turning tentatively to face a pale sun opening to reveal a lightness of being, a flash of gold, a fresh resilience, contented silence, the dawn of a new day.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

You will find only what you bring in.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.