"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- It gives a lovely light!" -- Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles