Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

I would prefer to live with bleeding heart where desire see darkness of uncertainty because I need to know the existence of love

People are always looking for magic, when the natural world holds true miracles

Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is called commerce.

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.