George Bernard Shaw

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

Events tend to recur in cycles.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

The first wealth is health.

All problems are finally scientific problems.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.