Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Reproduction: Distinguished leaders impress, inspire and invest in other leaders.

Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.

Schopenhauer wrote that to desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. He was correct.

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Influence: It takes an influential leader to excellently raise up leaders of influence.

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.

Hope is the last thing that dies.Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.