“Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.”

“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”

“They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.”

“There is no difference between your death, my death or the death of Jesus. It's just death.”

“One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.”

“Only the feeble resign themselves to final death and substitute some other desire for the longing for personal immortality. In the strong the zeal for perpetuity overrides the doubt of realizing it, and their superabundance of life overflows upon the other side of death.”

“What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is… It was death. I chose life.”

“Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.”

“We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.”

“Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.”