Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.

Somehow your heart still knows me.

Despite 4, 000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.

The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.

Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

To hate everything is to be wounded by everything.

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward.

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right!

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.