“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

You see, but you do not observe.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

The game is afoot.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.

Anything is better than stagnation.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

One must wait till it comes.

You must always be evolving and able to adapt and overcome any and all obstacles!

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.