Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.

Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.

How disorienting and isolating immortality must be, and how strong he must be to weather it.

The only true immortality lies in one's children.[Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger]

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.

...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.

His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.