What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. …

- Mechai Viravaidya

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

- Mechai Viravaidya

Take No as a question.

- Mechai Viravaidya

I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with g…

- Mechai Viravaidya

People like to have fun and they like to laugh. And when you laugh, it's much easier to convince people and they laugh with you, rather than being an…

- Mechai Viravaidya

The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

- Mechai Viravaidya

AIDS is still around. Therefore, you have to practice safe sex.

- Mechai Viravaidya

Most people don't want to work in commercial sex. They have little choice.

- Mechai Viravaidya

We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt o…

- Mechai Viravaidya