"The returning student had recently come out of a difficult divorce, and because her pain was significant, she wrongly insisted that her writing was significant as well."

-- David Sedaris

"What you do may seem insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. "

-- Gandhi

"Men who have significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women."

-- David Deida

"Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance that he himself has spun."

-- Clifford Geertz

"Only those questions that cannot be answered with 'precision' have any real significance."

-- E.F. Schumacher