Despite 4, 000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.

Somehow your heart still knows me.

The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.

Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles.

The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

I'm two decisions away from putting up drywall for a living. I am, and there's nothing wrong with that, but whatever I got, it's through the grace of God, and I've got to use it right.

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.