Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.

Somehow your heart still knows me.

Despite 4, 000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.

The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.

Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.

Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?

Everything you want is hidden in faith.

Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.

There’s no reason to cry over spilled milk. People cannot change the things that have already happened.

And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.

When you are a thankful person it releases joy.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.