George Bernard Shaw

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Live, let live, and help live

Mysteries are due to secrecy.