"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka