George Bernard Shaw

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

A crank is someone with a new idea – until it catches on.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can’t ever rub it off him.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Men who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep. Who dare while others fly.They build a nation’s pillars deep. And lift them to the sky.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

If you are good, life is good.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.