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

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

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

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau

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