You've never lived until you've almost died, for those who fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

T. S. Eliot

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Jack Kevorkian

It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.

John Podhoretz

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

H. Ross Perot

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Ann Landers

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

Camryn Manheim

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor

Thomas Carlyle

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

George Burns

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a combination of innate ideas and the intimate influences of the culture and environment we grow up in, we come to have beliefs about the nature of being human. These beliefs penetrate to a very deep level of our psychosomatic systems, our minds and brains, our nervous systems, our endocrine systems, and even our blood and sinews. We act, speak, and think according to these deeply held beliefs and belief systems.

Jeremy W. Hayward

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

Mitch Hedberg

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Rabbi H. Schachtel

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

Antonio Banderas