Quotes

• There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.
• We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do.
• There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.
• To be awake is to be alive.
• I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. 
• Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after -- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.