...I hide you inside me because I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind...

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

William Shakespeare

The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours you make the work your end, you will presently find yourself all unawares inside the only circle in your profession that really matters. You will be one of the sound craftsmen, and other sound craftsmen will know it. This group of craftsmen will by no means coincide with the Inner Ring or the Important People or the People in the Know. It will not shape that professional policy or work up that professional influence which fights for the profession as a whole against the public: nor will it lead to those periodic scandals and crises which the Inner Ring produces. But it will do those things which that profession exists to do and will in the long run be responsible for all the respect which that profession in fact enjoys and which the speeches and advertisements cannot maintain. And if in your spare time you consort simply with the people you like, you will again find that you have come unawares to a real inside: that you are indeed snug and safe at the center of something which, seen from without, would look exactly like an Inner Ring. But the difference is that its secrecy is accidental, and its exclusiveness a by-product, and no one was led thither by the lure of the esoteric: for it is only four or five people who like one another meeting to do things that they like. This is friendship. Aristotle placed it among the virtues. It causes perhaps half of all the happiness in the world, and no Inner Ring can ever have it.

C.S. Lewis

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength

George Orwell

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Giacomo Casanova

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

George Whitefield

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Natalie Clifford Barney

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Pam Brown

The white noise in his heart, the sum of all his colors the metronome to which he beat [was she].

Coco J. Ginger

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

George Reisman

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Oscar Wilde