That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

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.

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.

I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way.

I seek advice from my wife, who has been with me for 20 years and knows me better than I even know my own self.

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.

In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.

Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.