“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.”

“No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will sill pretty much depend on the weather.”

“When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.”

“Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”

“ Alex moved closer to me, never taking his eyes from mine. “What if your eternity doesn’t start when you die?” he asked carefully. “What if your eternity has been going on since before you were born?”I stared at him with a blank face, wondering what drugs he was on. ”

“If heaven be so fair,the sun so fair, how much fairer shall He be that made them fair? For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures, proportionally the maker of them is seen.”