I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.
“I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.”
“People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.”