Legacy Quotes

"The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it" "Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you" "Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself." "There has been so little joy or laughter on earth that I want to leave some memory of it" "Today I shall behave as if this is the day I will be remembered" "Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here." "Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain" "The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats" "We're all stories, in the end." "I would like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country" "The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed" "People disappear, but their memories remain." "Realize from early on that the world passes away, but the relic of a pious person remains" "I would like to be remembered as a thoughtful writer" "We shall all, without exception, be forgotten." "The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope" "If you go to your grave without painting your master piece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it" "I used to want the words “she tried” on my tombstone. Now I want “she did it”" "We are defined not only by what we create but what we refuse to destroy." "The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse"