For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Nix had told Emma before she'd left for Europe that on this trip she would 'do that which you were born to do.' Apparently, Emma was born to get kidnapped by a deranged Lykae. Her fate sucked.

In the end, that's why some of us stupid humans get married. Because we know that we can lose each other and find each other again.

I'm a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, 'cause I remember it all too well

Surfing is a life path. You have to really commit... You have to let go and have faith that it's gonna work out when you take off.

I love hanging out at home with my kid. It's hard to get me to leave the house.

Nobody's ever made me feel boring but I'm pretty boring. I acknowledge that in myself.

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

The game cannot be won, only played.

Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?