Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It’s inevitable.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

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.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

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

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

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

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.