Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Whatever 'in love' means.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.