I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Morality is contraband in war.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Life is a dead-end street.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Art is the proper task of life.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.