Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5, 000 years.

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

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

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.

I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

Halloween is the only day I can dress up like a hot Latina woman with a beer belly.

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.