I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.

-Mortal

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

-Erich Fromm

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

-James Ramsey

Without question, reading has been the foundation of whatever success I've had in my life.

-Hugh McColl, Jr.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

-Johann von Goethe

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I.

-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne