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

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.

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.

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

Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn’t amount to much.

Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy?

Keep your circle small with positive minded individuals who only come to grow with you, and not to take advantage of you.

Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.

The most difficult adversary I have ever faced happens to look just like me.

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy falsehood and deceit.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

Things don’t get better just because you want them to.