We owe it to ourselves to keep healthy this marvelous world we've been given.
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Our obligation is to ourselves and obligating to ourselves the job of defending and protecting America is how we serve other people around the world, not by letting this country go to hell. We are under no such obligation.
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.
I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.
I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
I feel my duty is to make music.
Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.
No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
