"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

- Coco Chanel

"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words... Look. Listen. Choose. Act."

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again."

"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."

- Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952