Waiting Turns To Never

Just read an awesome article in the latest issue of Men's Health (November 2007, the one with a super-inked up LeBron James on the cover). The article is "Last Words To Live By." Writer Mikel Jollett spoke with 15 men with life-threatening illnessess. Here is a sample of some of my favorite quotes. All profound. All inspiring. All packing a lifetime of wisdom into a sentence or two.

"Enjoy fatherhood. It has many, many valuable assets. It's also a terrible pain in the ass sometimes."
— Nat Posner, 92 (congestive heart failure)

"A bad diet will start to haunt you in your early 30s; a good diet will pay you back for the rest of your life."
— Mark Madden, 39 (congenital cardiomyopathy)

"Money never made me happy. You can buy a house, but you can't buy a home."
— Gary Garnesek, 53 (liver disease)

"A man with integrity will draw more business than a man without it."
— Mark Gillard, 46 (HIV)

"God gives me hope. That might seem corny, but when I'm sitting alone in a room and I know I'm not going to survive this, I feel comfort. I do not fear death."
— Tracy Thompson, 53 (ALS)

"You can't be a good father without being a good husband, and you can't be a good husband without being a good father."
— David Hewitt, 43 (melanoma)

And my favorite...

"Appreciate the time you have with your children. At the stage I'm at, you wish you had more time and wish you would have done more. There's never going to be enough money, so quit thinking about the things you want to do with your kids and just do them. Waiting turns to never."
— Bryan Woodward, 37 (leukemia)

Now those are some words to live by.