“I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.”
A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)
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Motivational speaker, writer 1924–1998Related quotes
“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
“The world sure isn’t kind to the man who tries to be gentle and thoughtful.”
Source: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 40 (p. 113)
“I'd like to be remembered as someone who kept the comic novel going for another generation or so.”
"Off the Page: Martin Amis" (2003)
Context: I'd like to be remembered as someone who kept the comic novel going for another generation or so. I fear the comic novel is in retreat. A joke is by definition politically incorrect — it assumes a butt, and a certain superiority in the teller. The culture won't put up with that for much longer.
In a 1965 interview with Walter Cronkite, as quoted in "Just A Couple Of Legends" CBS News.com (20 May 1998)
Variant: I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family — and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
“Old intelligence hands still remember this good-natured and wise man.”
Vadim Kirpichenko
Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), Individual Culture, p. 261
“License they mean when they cry, Liberty!
For who loves that must first be wise and good.”
On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)