John Ray

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Never meet trouble half-way.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.