Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.

Somehow your heart still knows me.

Despite 4, 000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.

The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.

Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?

I have known the spirit of my soul through the trials and temptations.

There are plenty of chances in life, what's important is what you make of them.

The instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm capitalism is that kind of a system.

We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

If I asked you, "Do you think you're beautiful?" everyone should say yes.

If the world watched how you worked today, would the world rise to its feet and applaud?

You are free to love without an agenda