Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. – Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. – Francis Bacon
If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said youre out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school. – Tim Gunn