“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere”

“You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.”

“The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.”

“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere”