Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.

Creatures of a day, what is a man? What is he not? Mankind is a dream of a shadow. But when a god-given brightness comes, a radiant light rests on men, and a gentle life.

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.

I’ve never done a single thing I’ve wanted to in my whole life! I don’t know ’s I’ve accomplished anything except just get along.