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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes we don’t have enough faith to do big things, it is immature faith

Have faith. Ye've so much for everyone else. Why not save some for yerself once in a while?

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

I've had an amazing ride. I've been blessed beyond things that I could never have imagined.

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.

If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.

Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a lunatic.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.