"Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe." - Albert Schweitzer
“The song is not a product. The song exists as a way to get to the singing. And the singing is not a product; the singing exists to form the community. There isn’t anything higher than that that I’ve ever experienced.” - Bernice Johnson Reagon
"The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life." - C.S. Lewis