Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

An unused life is an early death.

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.