“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”

“Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives.”

“For either killing or creating may be a crime punishable by death, and the death always comes by the criminal's own hand and every man is suicide. If a man knew how to live he would never die.”

“I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.”

“My hands are dying.”

“When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living - in hope. They don't know what's happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand - but you end up needing them to hold yours. With children, you're on your own. Do you understand?”