George Bernard Shaw

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing –a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Coercion is evil precisely because it…eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.

If people misunderstand you, do not worry…it is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is…their own thoughts.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.