“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.”

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.”

“Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.”

“The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.”

“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”

“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”

“Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.”

“What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal… and then die.”

“Not to recognize the effect of the aura is the greatest tragedy.”

“That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.”