An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?