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"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."

- Albert Einstein

"It seems that the essential impulse in working is to allow what haunts you to have a voice, to chart what is deeply private and etched on the soul, and find a form and structure for it."

- Colm Tóibín

"To have faith is to have wings."

- J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."

- Italo Calvino

"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."

- Joseph Campbell

"That have I borne, this I can bear also."

- Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)

"I do not try to know the answers; I try to understand the questions."

- Confucius

"What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us."

- Gaston Bachelard

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

- bell hooks