The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

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.

As long as there is the egoism of ‘I-ness’ (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards ‘my-ness’ (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?

The person who doesn't value you is blocking you from the one who will. Let them go.

Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

You can’t shine if you don’t burn.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.