“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”
“If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll be right. Every morning I looked in the mirror and asked myself: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I do today? ”
“No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.”
“In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.”
“Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this earth to do?”
“What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.”