Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

Nowadays, a minister of health cannot consider his or her job done simply by looking at the health care system. It's not enough to have a health policy, you need healthy policies elsewhere.

Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.

If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem.

The voices you listen to and obey determine to a large extent what you become.

With great power comes great dissipation.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.

The permit limits are pretty close to what the reality is.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, "Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here."

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.