The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on.

I was born in North London, migrated to Australia when I was four. So when I first came to Australia people saw me as a little English boy. Over the years that feeling of being a little English boy diminished and I felt much more Australian.

The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research.

The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.