Youth is wasted on the young.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.