America, we have come so far. We have seen so much.
But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves -
if our children should live to see the next century;

“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
- Leon J. Suenes

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
- Napoleon Hill

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends–hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism-

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

“There is only one happiness in life — to love and to be loved.” – George Sand

“It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.” – Chas. Austin Bates

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin

“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” – St. Clement of Alexandra

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller