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.

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

Thomas Merton, Love & Living

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

Bradley Cooper

I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

Eric Lefkofsky

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

Max Percy

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Orson Scott Card

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

Ron White

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Noam Chomsky

Faith doesn't rely on odds or statistical data. God only requires that we have faith; the rest is up to him.

Nancy Stephan

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Alex Haley

An egoist is always intelligent, never wise.

Raheel Farooq

He was proud of her, he admired her, and at that moment he was conscious of life as something good and he fell in love with her all over again. This consciousness of love took the form of a deep patience inhabiting him, rather than a feeling of cheer or even hope

Michael Stein