The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.