I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
- Benjamin Franklin

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
- John F. Kennedy

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain