In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Infants are interesting only to their parents.

The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.