I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

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.

You are my love, you are my light, you are my blue sky, when I am vanishing in you only then I can fly.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.