George Bernard Shaw

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

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

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

…with the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to suggest early Victorian commercial respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the passionate character of art, love and Roman Catholic religion, and all the first fruits of plutocracy in the early generations of the industrial revolution.

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

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

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

I don’t think it’s meant for man to know everything at once.

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Always seeking acceptance from others, searching for belonging. Striving for individuality, yet wanting to fit in. Never understanding that acceptance for one’s own individuality make all of that redundant.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

It is better to walk alone, then with a crowd going in the wrong direction.