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

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

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

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Life is a dead-end street.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

My life is my message.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

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.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

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

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

My life is real.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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.

I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn’t long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.

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

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

My work and my family are very important to me.