The honor of a nation is its life.

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

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

It is natural to die as to be born.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

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

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

I do not pilfer victory.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

The post of honour is a private station.

My whole life is a theater piece.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.