I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.

To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything.

I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.

There is nothing more beautiful than the silence of nature.

When you begin to run after miracles, Jesus feels insulted.

As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.

I'm blessed with good health for which I'm deeply grateful, so for that reason, I feel so good. Everybody else is far more excited about the 90 than I am.

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.