The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

Love is the reason why, in confusion, we understand.

You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes, ” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.

Beauty brings us back to the now.

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

Our bodies need real, fresh food to maintain health.

Genius does not excuse evil.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.