Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.

Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.