legacy Quotes

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.