All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

It is necessary to draw up a plan concerning your goals and your calling

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

My life has been given its orders: the seasons seize the soul and the body, and make mock of any dispersed effort. The hour of death is the only trespass

The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?

Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.