During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

Women power is a formidable force.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

a leadership is a position of action process of abolition, completion of mission, over come oppositionand submission of duties

Her mother stared in quiet awe of this more artful rearrangement of her genetic code, and slipped into a contentedness that usually appeared only after the red wine had fallen below the bottle label.

You can never complain your way to a fulfilling life.

...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God

Perfection's stuck.

But glad to have sat underThunder and rain with you, And grateful tooFor sunlight on the garden.

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.

There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.