Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.

Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.

Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause.