We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
Do something worth remembering.
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.