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

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.

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

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.

I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other

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.