“Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.”

“I'm damaged in many ways. And yet a lot of what my fight is about is pushing through that to live a meaningful, sane existence and make a difference and play to my strengths.”

“It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”

“A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.”

“Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.”

“It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash.”

“If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.”

“Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.”

“There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out”

“Life is a transforming flood that fills up empty containers and then spills out of them on its way to fill up more. The shape and number of vessels submerged by the flood doesn't make a bit of difference.”