Stephen Fry

"I suppose the thing I’d most would have like to have known [when I was 18] or be reassured about, is, that in the world what counts more than talent, what counts more than energy or concentration or commitment or anything else is kindness. And the more in the world you encounter kindness and cheerfulness, which is kind of its amiable uncle or aunt, just the better the world always is - and all the big words, virtue, justice, truth are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness." - Stephen Fry
Nachzuhören: http://vimeo.com/11414505

Happy Birthday Mr Fry!

Lebenslektionen von und mit Stephen Fry:
"How to be Gorgeous"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utpdzQj2S6o

"I think it was Donald Mainstock, the great amateur squash player, who pointed out how lovely I was. Until that time, I think it was safe to say that I had never really been aware of my own timeless brand of loveliness, but his words spoke to me, because of course you see I am lovely, in a fluffy, moist kind of way.

I walk, let’s be splendid about this, in a lightly-scented cloud of gorgeousness that isn’t far short of being quite simply terrific.

The secret of smooth, almost shiny loveliness of the order which we are discussing in this simple, frank, creamy soft way, doesn’t reside in oils, unguents, balms, ointments, creams, astringents, milks, moisturizers, liniments, lubricants, embrocations, or balsams to be rather divine for just one noble moment. It resides, and I mean this in a pink, slightly special way, in one’s attitude of mind.

To be gorgeous and high and true and fine and fluffy and moist and sticky and lovely, all you have to do is to believe that one is gorgeous and high and true and fine and fluffy and most and sticky and lovely and I believe it of myself — tremulously at first — and then with mounting heat and passion — because, stopping off for a second to be super again, I’m so often told it.

That’s the secret, really."
:)