Life's about friendships, the way you love your partner, the way you care for your children. That is what life is about. Not anything about earning a hundred zillion dollars because you toured America more than anyone else. I want life to be about creativity.
- -- Joe Strummer, former lead singer for the Clash rock band.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
- -- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
- -- Mike Ditka

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
- -- Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- -- Chinese proverb

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
- -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
- -- James A. Garfield

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
- Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), supreme commander of allied forces in 1918