Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.

Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.

Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it.

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.

Saying we can't afford to invest in early child development means we're storing up bigger costs in the future.

Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on.

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.

The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

If you cant fight THE bad happening to you...then u deserve it

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

Once you want something, everything changes.

Remember why you're running your marathon. When you're struggling with those training runs that thought will help you.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.