We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

In the world today, we humans have become more self-absorbed, more tribal and tenacious in holding on to our narrow agendas; we have become consumed by the barrage of information inundating us; we are even more fickle when it comes to leaders.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.