“Don't we all hope to die with a smile on our faces?”

“And that’s about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor. To die knowing we did everything we could.”

“What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?”

“We all came from our mothers' bellies. We all have hope in our veins. We don't want history to forget us, but the dead look after the afterwards.”

“We are not alien visitors to this planet, after all but natural residents and relatives of every living entity here. This earth is where we came from and where we'll all end up when we die, and during the interim, it is our home, And there's no way we can ever hope to understand ourselves if we don't at least marginally understand our home.”

“No matter what horrible circumstances we may face in our lives, we must never lose hope, for losing hope is the beginning of our own self defeat.”