'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

"Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how, BUT...we can decide how we meet that end, so that we are remembered...as men."

I knew a man who once said, "Death smiles at us all.  All a man can do is smile back."

"What we do in life, echoes in eternity."