Nicholas Winton

“I've always enjoyed doing work that intrudes, or helps people.”

“I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.”

“I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way to do it.”

“Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all.”

“I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.”

“I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.”

“It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.”

“Ever since I was quite young, I was in St. John's Ambulance or the Red Cross; latterly, I've been involved in voluntary work with the mentally handicapped and Abbeyfield Old People's Homes.”

“Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.”