Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

To rise from the ashes only to have them rain on you from above.

People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

Love is jealous that any should come before her, or after. She would be all in all. If a man will trust her and live in her, he shall know all things.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.