"Relationships with others, living or dead, frame one's sense of self and how one lives. More and more we appreciate that there is continuity between the past and the present. Without a sense of the past and an understanding of its place in people's lives, it is difficult to move ahead." ~encyclopedia.com

"Meh, good enough." ~Mediocrates 

 "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... the man who never reads lives only one." ~George RR Martin