legacy Quotes

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.