Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

He who has never hoped can never despair

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.