To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.

It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank...

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The legacy we leave behind should be better than the legacy we inherited.

I came on earth for something, I must do something, and I must live and leave not just anything, but something!

Today and every day, live and lead the memory you want to leave behind.

The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it.

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that whereas women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men - great men - must build monuments and seek fame?

She should have a ride named after her at Epcot, man.

Do not speak to me of martyrdom, of men who die to be remembered on some parish day. I don't believe in dying though, I too shall die. And violets like castanets will echo me.

A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.

Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

The real social contract, {Edmund Burke} argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future...

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.