The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

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.

I lost a child, " she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

The way a person spends his money and time can tell a lot about the things he or she values.

Golly, he's just a pest and your worst best friend, Who mend and rip space-time fabric like polyester blend.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag, and right then and there, he fell in love." -Animal Magnetism

One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.

If I ever get bored with golf, I'm going to start over and play lefthanded.

There is something so beautiful inside you that if you knew it, you would fall in love with it. It is irresistible. You can truly experience that.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.