To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing it's best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight and never stop fighting.–e.e. cummings, 1894-1962

Find your own way, open your treasure house, invent your own answer to the chaos.–gertrude Stein, 1874-1946

There was never an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.–Mark Twain, 1835-1910