"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." – Anatole France (1844-1924)

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." – Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results." – Anthony Robbins

I am writing this narrative as swiftly as I can because, in truth, I have no idea how much time, how much living, remains for me. Will I make it to Thanksgiving? Maybe. To Christmas? Very doubtful. But for a certainty the inevitable snow that will soon cover every fallen leaf will also blanket my grave before the new year has counted many days.

Am I being ravaged by some malignant disease? No. Only four months ago, after my annual checkup, Dr. Scagno assured me that all systems were "go" and that I inhabited one of the healthiest forty-two-year-old bodies he had examined in a long time. Am I planning to take my own life? God forbid. If ever a man had everything to live for, that person is me.

So why this terrible sense of impending doom, this certainty of a deadline (such an apt word) on my life that has triggered this hasty recital on the typewriter. After all, who among us has any guarantee that he or she will even see tomorrow's sunrise? Perhaps by the time you finish reading these words you will understand.

Hopefully, by the time I complete these brief memoirs, if I finish, I, too, will have a much better perspective of all that has happened to me since that memorable morning, more than six years ago, when I suddenly changed the direction of my life. The decision was mine and mine alone, you must understand, and even with my days now limited, I would do it all again if life had such a thing as reruns.

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half." – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)