Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.

I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.