Brian Parris

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Androcles and the Lion

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.”
― Anaïs Nin, HENRY AND JUNE