Serenity is the first thing people with addiction issues are instructed to request: God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, … - Russell Brand

Usually, when I’ve met the people who are meant to be in a position of power, I’ve always made sure to give them a damn good soul stare—y’know, look right in their eyes, through the blackness of the pupils and into whatever conscious field exists within. Then lock the eyes on, but let them gently defocus so that the defined parameters of the visual physical go blurry and you can feel the energy behind it, the unseeable energy that isn’t made of photons. Then, if your mind is quiet, you will be informed of the quality of their essence, or at least of the manifest persona that they believe themselves to be.

I suppose that corruption by definition is a deviation, a perversion from the intended path.

There's no shame in being second to Stephen Fry. Unless it's in a straight nose competition.