“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”
“A man can lose his life falling off a mountain or falling off a hill. In the end it will not matter how he died, but how he lived. The important thing is to grab the life you can and make the most of it. - Gold Mountain”
“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
“It seems as if no man had ever died in America before, for in order to die you must first have lived. These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live.”
“Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.”
“Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.”