"You have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself"
Miles Davis, American jazz musician

"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act."
Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

"Health is not simply the absence of sickness."
Hannah Green

"Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990