"Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your hands..." - 1 Thessalonians 4:11

"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."  
-R. Buckminster Fuller

"Nature and all her wonders guide me. Emotions find expression in fragrance. Fragrance is the music of my dreams. Fragrance is my inspiration." -Annick Goutal

"Well, while I am here I'll do the work - and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow." -Allen Ginsburg