“It matters greatly not only that we birth and die but how we birth and die.”

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.”

“I'll not forget that day nor the message of the Christian church that we celebrate each death as an Easter, each dying as a living, each soul, no matter how poor or sinful, as the child of royalty. At its best, the church treats people as beings of eternal worth, no less at their dying than at their birth, no less in their sins than in their virtue, no less for one than for another.”

“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”

“Never underestimate the will of a creature who begins to die at birth.”

“Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.”