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.

To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

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.

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

Protect your finest hours for your greatest work. Bring on your craft and lift us with you.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.