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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
- William Shakespeare

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

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