So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.