"You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You only get to chose how you're going to live."
- - Joan Baez
"History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn."
- - Edmund Burke
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
-- Marcius Porcius Cato
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
-- Norman Cou