We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.

That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you.

I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense.

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation.

Life is ever changing. We can always adapt to the new changes.

He adapted to what there was to adapt to.

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.