The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.

The level of outbreak is beyond anything we’ve seen - or even imagined.

I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.

Where you live in the United States shouldn't determine how long and how healthy you live - but it does, far more than it should.

Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.

It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.

Unfortunately, it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of Ebola.

The United States has made remarkable progress in reducing both teen pregnancy and racial and ethnic differences, but the reality is, too many American teens are still having babies.

Too many U.S. adults have a heart age years older than their real age, increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke. Everybody deserves to be young - or at least not old - at heart.

I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.

Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

Is some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

Good intentions are not enough; commitment and sacrifice are necessary.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

I certainly have more enthusiasm when I'm dealing with marginalized people in Japan, and as a creative person I am part of that marginalization.