In life, there's the beginning and the end. The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between – whether you're prepared to do what it takes to make change. There has to be physical and material sacrifice. When all the dust settles and we're getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.
Interpretation
The essence of life lies in actions taken in the present rather than the beginning or end.
This quote emphasizes that while beginnings and endings are often focal points in our lives, it is the choices and actions we take in the moments in between that truly define our existence. It challenges us to recognize the importance of making sacrifices and exerting effort to bring about meaningful change during our lifetime, suggesting that the ultimate fulfillment comes from knowing we have contributed positively while we were here.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of taking risks in life.
The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation to find the biggest possible megaphone to let your feelings be known. Don't let your message be buried and don't bury yourself.
The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between...the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.
How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life for them and their children. And, in the main, they succeeded. It is hard to find any century in history, in which so large a number of people experience so great an improvement in the conditions of their life, in the opportunities open to them, as in the period of the 19th and early 20th century.
I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
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