George Bernard Shaw

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

"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."

"I’m an atheist and I thank God for it."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."

"I’m an atheist and I thank God for it."

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."

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

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."

"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."

"In heaven an angel is no one in particular."

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."