In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers.

Stay positive, stay strong, stay together and just keep going!

You can always enhance your natural beauty you learn what works for your face because crazy make-up doesn't really suit anyone.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

We do not build or create a spiritual consciousness; we merely get rid of all that obscures our pure vision

I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

Keep your lips and other body parts to yourself or you’ll be headless. (Apollymi)

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back