I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true.

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

The reason to consider life and what's of value is to make sure you're not missing out. Seize the day. What's important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that. Forget the rest.

I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.

I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

If you ever find yourself walking a mile in my shoes, I hope that you would be at least be given the same choice.

It is people who pause to appreciate life and give thanks who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change our world! Love and peace to you all.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.

Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.