“The most important lesson that you can walk away with is that the idiots who surround you are, in fact, not idiots at all. Instead, they are individuals worthy of respect, understanding, and being valued.” Surrounded by Idiots

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine. Book II

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. Never Give In!

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. Never Give In!