The natural thing to do is to work-to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course. I have no suggestion which goes beyond accepting in its fullest this principle of nature.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Just as in ordinary life a man with a fixed life-goal... will always be superior to others who live aimlessly.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.