I like the French ones

[mccutcheon]

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

- Victor Hugo

[bfj]

"One must not cut oneself off from the world. No one who lives in the sunlight makes a failure of his life. My whole effort, whatever the situation, misforten or disillusion, must be to make contact again."

--Albert Camus, May, 1936