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

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

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.

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

When you are beloved and happy, you are a great success.

You've got some power, " Jakkin said. "One hug—and the lights go out!

I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.

Tomorrow's fast becoming our Past.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

I believe in returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.

Grief is what tells you who you are alone.

Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.

Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.