I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say...
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the...
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.
It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
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.
There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Can these signs and symbols still speak? Images, memories, stories, and objects all carry the past into the present. As we think about these messages from the past, we might wonder, too, about what...
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.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....