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

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.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the link between applied research and policy and program development. Recently there has been less interest in these issues and we feel that this interest must be rekindled.

Major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action.

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

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