When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.