“It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.”

“When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.”

“You young men have too many jokes. When there are no jokes you've nothing left.”

“But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.”

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”

“The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.”