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

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

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.

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.

The beauty he saw in her was the beauty she forgot to see in herself and what a beautiful reminder, that love is what will see us all through.

Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.

I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.

Being Grateful. That is the first step on the path to Joy.

The words fire from my mouth like bullets, ricocheting off the walls before I can even register what I'm saying.

Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.