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.

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

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.

If you do not tell me, I don’t wish to know.

Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.