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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We hunger for connection but take pride in being distant.

Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

In a game like this, the team that makes the least amount of mistakes prevails. We made a couple today. But it's all about the brotherhood. We all go down together.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.