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

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.

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.

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.

People who live according to the way of the world always complain about their lives

...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.

if you think she is amazing, you are the ordinary one ...

There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.

It's always been my dream to be on the stage with my band, singing my music. That's always been, and always will be.

The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.