“Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.”

“I guess you can't live at full-on intensity forever. Lying on the bed of my cell in the dark, trembling, waiting for the soldiers to come in and shoot me - you just can't keep doing that. There's something in the human spirit that won't let you live that way.”

“I live in the light,But carry my dark with me.”

“Well, I’ve learnt this much: it doesn’t matterwhat it costs, it’s worth paying the price. You can’t live cheapand you can’t live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you’vepaid it, that’s what I reckon.”

“...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back.We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Staystill Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.”

“A farm is just an accumulation of stories really. Same with people..."A farmer's footsteps are the best fertiliser," Dad used to say, which just means that the more you walk around your place the better everything seems to grow and flourish.”

“What happened next played itself out like a terrible drama with two spectators. Lee and I stayed on our side of the fence, like an audience. Of course if the bull had wanted to smash through the fence he could have done so any time, but luckily nearly all cattle live and die without learning that. It's like school, most students go from kindergarten to Year 12 without noticing that they could do a fair amount of damage if they wanted to. They stay inside the fence.”