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

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.

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.

The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where I have a comfortable couch, a lamp and two dogs to keep me warm.

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.

In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.