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

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.

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.

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

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

Artemis Fowl will never be secondary." "I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.

Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.

I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.

By rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact, has made another crisis more likely.

I'm a street fighter. I'm ready for any kind of mixed martial arts that comes at me.

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.