"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."

"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."

"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking."

"They that have lived a single day have lived an age."

"Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner."

"You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer."

"I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it."

"It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge."