The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable Man.
-George Bernard Shaw
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; If you can't ignore it; top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it, if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved!
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
The human individual lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
-William James