I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

I grew up going to funerals and visiting people in nursing homes. I'm not as afraid of dealing with the dying as maybe some other people may be.