Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

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.

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

It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine.

There is no more contemptible sound than a gunshot.

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

Overly focused, it's far from the time to rest now. Debates growin bout who they think is the best now

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.