“Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.”

“Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better. ”

“Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls. ”

“Over a century now after Dr. William Gorgas wiped Yellow Fever out of Havana and Panama, and by that out of an entire continent, and more than half a century after Fred Lowe Soper led the eradicati...”

“Many experts dont possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldnt be allowed to hold back men and women who do ...”

“What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her will ironically be your destruction, while my regard for her will be my triumph...”

“Preferring steady progress, slow and imperfect, is a good philosophy for the defeated.”

“The case which I reported on September 26, 1901, was really the last which occurred in Havana. Of course we did not know it at the time, but this case marked the first conquest of yellow fever in a...”

“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”

“I used to hold you as my everything,And so I built my castles in your lands,But you proved to me your inadequacies,With this, how will my castles stand?”

“It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring peop...”

“Sometimes, a war saves people.”

“Sometimes, a war saves people.”