George Bernard Shaw

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

You sold me a dream and it shattered. I didn’t know how to put it back together again. So instead, I’m lovingly gluing those fragments anew with seams of gold, creating a vibrant new dream, rendering the broken strong and more than ever, breathtakingly beautiful.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness – calling their denial knowledge.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.