I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

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.

You give the shirt off your back, no questions asked, and you stand alone at the cavernous mouth of your suburban closet—your entire life spent wonderingwhere your clothes went.

You create your own reality.

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.