Memento Mori

I know that when I am on my deathbed someday, I will not be thinking about any particular legislation I passed; I will not be thinking about a policy I promoted; I will not be thinking about the Nobel Prize I received. I will be thinking about that walk I took with my daughters.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

There are 30,000 days in your life. I realized there are no warmups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Every day we're writing a few more words of a story. Instead of trying to make my life perfect, I tried to make it interesting.

It is an incredibly exciting thing, this one meaningless life of yours.

We're all going to get cancelled one day. So do the show you want to do.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well and living fully.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed. It is the things we do not.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well and living fully. For the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed. It is the things we do not.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Feel life in all its pain and mystery. If you can't feel pain, you won't feel joy, either. There's plenty of time to be comatose, like for the rest of eternity.