The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
I want to live my life the way Jesus does - I want to love people.
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
I wish I could never spend another second talking about cancer and all it does to everyone it surrounds, but unfortunately, that cannot be because of my life.
We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.
Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
