Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

I just don’t have time to get old!

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

The art is long, life is short.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

The older you get, the better you get.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.