The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

It was a big base of my performance art ... the idea of here and now ... not something that's happening in the past or the future. It's always happening. It's always now.... Only what matters is the present.

The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are. Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

Our lives are not just measured in minutes. They are measured in moments—moments when the minutes stand still.

G. K. Chesterton said that his goal in life was to take nothing for granted—not a sunrise, not a smile, not a flower, nothing. That is a truly wonderful approach to life. Don't take anything for granted. Truly appreciate every minute that you have to live. My near-death experience has helped me be better at that. If I hadn't almost died, I wouldn't have figured out how to live.

Time is measured in minutes, while life is measured in moments.

Somebody is n the hospital begging God for the opportunity u have right now. Step into your moment.