“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

“There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”

“I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”

“Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?”

“I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.”

“I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”