Dont ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because theres always somebody behind you who really wants to do what youre doing. And theyre going to work harder than you if youre not working hard. – Maria Bartiromo
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed? – Michelangelo
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety. – Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856
