In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to...

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

Birth was the death of him.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.