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.

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

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.

To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.

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

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.

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