Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.