"Of all the men who were said..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.”

“Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.”

“The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.”

“The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.”

“But I hope to maintain my credibility after I stop playing. Because, yes of course, now I play and I score goals and children all over are mad about me. Not just poor children - all children. We can make them really happy by the way we play, though I have to say that it's the poor ones that I think of most, the ones who can't come and watch the games at the stadium. We mean so much to them. That's why I'm so committed to this work. Later, after you've stopped playing, it's harder to have the same impact. But I will give it a go. I want to continue doing this kind of work for ever.”

“Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.”

“I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.”

“A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.”

“Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.”