People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies.
We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend
I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.
Can one generation bind another and all others in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead.
I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)
It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.
A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.
We have to make a living, sure, but it's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and what it stands for, what the fans are all about.
I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.
Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.
The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
It's important to do see the results of your philanthropy while you are alive.
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
I took my dad's name to carry on his legacy because acting feels like something I'm meant to do. I want to try everything.
I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.
