Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing.  We are sentenced to die the day were born.
- Gary Mark Gilmore

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

~Steve Jobs, Stanford University

Commencement Address 6/2005

It is through giving that we receive and it is through dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
- Gloria Steinem

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.  The only completely consistent people are the dead.
- Aldous Huxley