"If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an .


Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death.


Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid of thinking you have something to lose.


My doctor advised me to go home and get my , which is doctor's code for prepare to die.


It means to make sure everything is so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.


The doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable .


Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is we all share. No one has ever escaped it.



Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be . Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.



Don't let the noise of others' opinions your own inner voice. And most important, have the to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.



It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and with neat tools and great notions.



On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their as they signed off.