There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

The best prescription is knowledge.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn’t matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.