“When I die, I want to come back as me.”

“Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.”

“When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.”

“Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.”

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

“When your parents die, Alessandro, you feel that you have betrayed them.""Why?" Luciana asked. "Because you come to love your children more. I lost my mother and father to images in photographs and handwriting on letters, and as I abandoned them for you, the saddest thing was that they made no protest."Even now that I'm going back to them, I regret above all that I must leave you.""You're not going back to anybody," Alessandro told him. "We'll solve those problems later.""Alessandro," his father said, almost cheerfully. "You don't understand. This kind of problem is very special: it has no solution.”

“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”