“I want my life to be about LIVING, not leaving --which is why I'm LEAVING nothing behind.”

“Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.”

“To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.”

“And what good's a life that leaves nothing behind/Not a thought or a dream that might echo in time.”

“Life is just about living some things or leaving some things. So just live it or leave it.”

“I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.”