George Bernard Shaw

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

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

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.