I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

Women power is a formidable force.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

Most fears are just illusions.

We need to keep a constant watch over our mind and learn to distinguish between the beneficial and harmful thoughts that are arising moment by moment. Those who are able to do this are truly wise.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.