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.

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff, ' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

The two are now bound inextricably. Should one die, the other will follow. No wepon in this world can wound only one of them

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

Procrastination is a sign of a perfectionist.

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.

Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

A garden is never so good as it will be next year.