I came from a warm Jewish family.

Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.

Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it.

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.

Saying we can't afford to invest in early child development means we're storing up bigger costs in the future.

Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.

Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on.

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.

Planting and harvest don't happen in the same season

I bestowed consciousness on mankind

Love is a spell created by mortals

Within my words there is a longingTo be written, through the senses to travel across the mindTo be perceived by your heart, to rest in your deep.

Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like. We're wrong.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

If nominated, I shall run to Mexico. If elected, I shall fight extradition.

There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.