"Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions."

“Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy,”

“I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.”

Source : "Not My Job: We Quiz Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse On Peaches". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 20, 2017.

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”

Source : Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.263, Broadway Books

“The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.”

Source : Quoted in Sir Jonah Barrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).

“I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.”

“One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.”

Source : Melanie Klein, Juliet Mitchell (1987). “Selected Melanie Klein”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.”

Source : "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

“...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.”