Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course if you dig deeper it's really how it works.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

If you wish to make a man look noble your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with comes out in death.

Of course we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept to truly feel it... that's different.

I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard if you make it work it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.

I was never afraid of failure after that because I think coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years the actual experience of course fades but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

Sleep is lovely death is better still not to have been born is of course the miracle.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death!