"You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin'..." - Quote by Frank Sinatra

“Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.”

“My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.”

“Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.”

“You are the only one who has to live your life.”

“Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”

“Don't just live a life; build one.”

“Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.”

“Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.”

“I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there’s nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that’s not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left.”