To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

We cannot waste time.  We can only waste ourselves.

When the last Great Scorer comes
To mark against your name,
He'll write not 'won' or lost'
But how you played the game.

Another not unimportant consideration is, that the powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers, and foreign commerce. In its internal operations it can touch but few objects, except to introduce regulations beneficial to the commerce, intercourse, and other relations, between the states, and to lay taxes for the common good. The powers of the states, on the other hand, extend to all objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, and liberties, and property of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.

All that you’ll ever keep in life is that which you’ve given away.

Is death the last step?  No, it is the final awakening.

There are times when a person must live for others before they can have a full life for themselves.

Our life contains a thousand springs and dies if one be gone;
Strange how a harp of a thousand springs can stay in tune so long.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other