George Bernard Shaw

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

The seven deadly sins… food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

We must train hard. It’s not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Language is the dress of thought.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.