It is an indescribable experience knowing that what you are doing will have an impact on the lives... of millions of people.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

If you have to love, then love greatly.

The only things I can’t offer you are children and politicians: the first is illegal and the second is expensive

What matters is what appears in your soul, not what your eyes see and what you can name.

Ahh the 90's I hated ye when I was in it, but I love it now that it's gone...

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

I love being creative.

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.