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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.