You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Never tell a child that something it's too hard

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.