“In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.”

“Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.”

“Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?”

“The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.”

“100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased. ”

“Kindness is infectious. Spread the disease.”

“You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.”