George Bernard Shaw

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

Your mind makes a cruel master, but a generous servant.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

In a man’s letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.