I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

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

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Life is a dead-end street.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

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.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.