Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

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.

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.

Usually, your personality doesn't come out on the cover of Vogue. If the photographer says, "Smile," you smile. You might not be in a good mood that day, but you're smiling anyway.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it.

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.