I always knew about the risks I was taking. Every year, someone you knew was killed racing. You had to ask yourself, do you enjoy driving these cars so much that you're prepared to take that risk?
I did not want to be silent because I had to live in that situation for ever. It would be better to speak and be killed
He that lives most dies most.
I have to tell you, in my judgment, some of us sitting here today will not come back alive from this campaign. I want you to think about it.
No one dropped out.
I think I've almost killed myself 1,000 times eating some sandwich as fast as I possibly could and almost choking. It's a miracle that I'm still alive.
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.
Losing and dying: it's the same thing.
Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.
Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.
When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was destined to pass from this earth early!
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.
Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.
If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.
Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they're going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment.
It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.
They can send death at once, but life is slower.
Some people live. Some people die.
Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!
You're dying every minute, but you won't die yet.
Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.
There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.
I don't know whether I'll reach 40. I don't know whether I'll reach 35. I can't be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn't think I'd make 30.
A death is the most terrible of facts.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
