The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered 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.

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.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

You deny the existence of magic. It's tragic. Aren't you a child born from the ashes of stars? Born from light to decide a life?

Ninja Mom's know that God has never left them!

...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field...

Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.

When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.

I got to score goals and get points. I got to get on the board somehow.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.