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Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.
Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.
One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.
You are extraordinarily attractive to women. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it.
My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.
We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.
I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce.
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.
The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.
[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.
This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.
The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.
The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.
The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.
The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.
Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!
It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer.
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.
This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.
The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders.
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all!
I'm trained in science, believe in logic, and like to think there's an explanation for everything. And I'm truly not really at ease with other people.
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.
That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.