"The thing I learned the most from my father is don't wait for tomorrow. Don't say you're gonna do something 'when the kids grow up.' Don't say, 'I'm going to go to Israel once you guys are out of school.' Because he got pancreatic cancer at fifty-two, and he never did any of it. The gift he gave me was a residue of his death. Don't ever wait to satisfy an idea or a hope or a dream."
— Mandy Patinkin, American tenor, born 1952