I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

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.

I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season.

I enjoy being a lemming, we line up to do everything together.

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

A house and a woman sute excellently.

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

Decriminalizing bodies - this is a big and growing movement.