I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

Not all bits have equal value.

When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?

Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen.

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Each of us can make a great difference in the lives of other people, particularly as we move along the Success Process ourselves growing in strength, gaining experience and knowledge.