I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Do not quit, endure and find strength.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

Life is too short to be serious

I've become much more interested in architecture than I've ever been.

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do.