“He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.”

“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.”

“I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.”

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”

“Hail the heavenly Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
Risen with healing in his wings.
Mild he lays his glory by,
Born that man no more may die,
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.”

“He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'
I lean over. My hair smothers him.
'Then you should never have been born,' I say.”

“It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.”

“the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past to die”

“What were Jove himself
If pity had not been? Was not he once
A hapless babe, condemn'd to die ere born?”

“Only thoughts that are randomly born die. The other thoughts we carry with us without knowing them. They have abandoned themselves to forgetfulness so that they can be with us all the time.”