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

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

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.

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

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

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.

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

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

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.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

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

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

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

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there’s a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

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

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

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.

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

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