We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live

AIDS has come upon us with cruel abandon. It has forced us to confront and deal with the frailty of our being and the reality of death. It has forced us into a realization that we must cherish every moment of the glorious experience of this thing we call life. We are learning to value our own lives of our loved ones as if any moment may be the last.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.