The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.