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

You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.

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

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.

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

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