Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.

The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.

The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment.

Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola

We all need to begin thinking out of the box.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

I am truly not an axiologist, but I am concerned about the value of life in all of its forms and shapes.

There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Be yourself! Now that would be different!

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.