Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Your child can die from chickenpox.

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

No matter what comes your way, don't lose your joy.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is.

The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War', and I'm beginning to think they're right. For war costs millions of dollars a day, and love--just a few bucks a night!

For me marketing is about how to present a project.

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.