When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire.

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.

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

Your imagination, your will, your conscience – these are almighty – they make you achieve things that no human being has ever achieved in history.

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.

Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.

The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.