Available for download on Amazon is Mark Milian’s “Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple's Steve Jobs” --- a collection of the rare moments when the iconic Steve Jobs became philosophical publicly; with quotes that apparently are among his most memorable!

The content of the e-mail correspondence that Jobs shared with his fans and well-wishers, acquaintances as well as strangers, is a clear indication that as the legendary Apple co-founder faced his own mortality, he views about human existence became increasingly poetic and philosophical.

Ever since his diagnosis of a rare type of pancreatic cancer in 2003, Jobs granted some rare interviews, and participated in e-mail correspondences in which he even shared his condolences and personal revelations with people living with the grief of having lost a dear one.

In his April 20, 2010, e-mail correspondence with a man called James – who had lost his girlfriend to melanoma two years earlier, and wanted to thank Jobs for backing the organ donation program -, Jobs talked about the transitory existence of human beings on the Earth, saying, “Life is fragile.”

Of all his philosophical views on life and death, the most widely quoted is clearly the one in which Jobs put forth at the Stanford University's graduating class in 2005, when he said during the commencement address: “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”