UnScramble this Word: k a l n p i g n?

Questions

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating ------------."- Ronald Reagan?

"You cannot do a -------------- too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)?

"You cannot escape the -------------- of tomorrow by evading it today."- Abraham Lincoln?

"He'll regret it to his ----------, if he ever lives that long."- Frank Nugent?

if you're alive, it isn't."- Richard Bach?