Your child can die from chickenpox.

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

The stories I read, strengthen my spirit in any situation.

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

We'll look enough like we do now to recognise each other, identify each other and know each other!

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible.

As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

I much prefer to watch actors and writers create "humanizing" moments for characters. In a drama, "humanizing" is far more impactful and powerful than "redeeming."

Simply to endure is to triumph.

A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.