Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.