People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.