“I'm not afraid of death myself, because I'm not gonna know I'm dead. I'm awed a bit by the idea, but I'm perfectly reconciled to it. Certainly I am, as everyone is, reconciled to everyone else's death but their own. They think an exception can be made in their own case.”

Source: 61 Hours

As quoted in "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'" by Ian Sample, in The Guardian (15 May 2011) http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven
Context: I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first... I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Last words to her personal secretary (Elizabeth Salter) as she was being carried into an ambulance.
The Last Years of a Rebel (1967)

Quoted September 05, 1995, on playing in his 2,130th consecutive game equaling Lou Gehrig's record; The Baseball Timeline, Burt Solomon, p. 1018

During an interview on 60 Minutes (11 November 2016)
2010s, 2016, November

Amanda Collier Ridley, Chapter 11, p. 171
2009, The Best of Me (2011)

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Longstanding Behar joke about how her Italian-Catholic persona is mistaken as being Jewish. As reported in The Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/04/20/in_the_swirl_of_the_view_a_stabilizing_force/?page=3 (April 20, 2008) page 3. Url accessed on December 12, 2008.