I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

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?

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.

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.

It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.

To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees.

we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

Winters with strong frost and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will cease to exist at our latitudes.