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

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

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

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

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.

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