"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"  --Maya Angelou

"In times of strife, we have our imagination, we have our creative impulse."  --Patti Smith

"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."  --Samuel Johnson

"Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves."  --Etty Hillesum