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

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.

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.

It is not enough that you look for Him.You must hunt for God each and every dayas if your life depends on it.Because it does.

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you’ve read but where you are at.

... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you.

Perception in the eye of vengeance becomes blurred. Ren was in need of a slap on the face, but I knew what was coming and that it would do the job properly.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life!

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.