George Bernard Shaw

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

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

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.