"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." --Colin Wilson

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." --Chinese Proverb

"Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best, and you live it best, by holding it with very open hands." -- Less O'Donavan

"The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance." --Thomas Merton