More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

Women power is a formidable force.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

The scars are just something that happened to me. They aren't me. Not anymore.

...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

After you pray, accept, adapt and move on, .. That's what winners do.

The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It's time we build a rocket and go to stay.

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

Love is creation raised to a higher degree.