“If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.”

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

“If my friends are olive oil then I'm extra virgin.”

“E. V. O. O. (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)”

“As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.”

“In 1965, the people of Britain may have been poorer, smaller, shabbier, dirtier, colder, narrower, more set in their ways, ignorant of olive oil, polenta and - even - lager. But they knew what united them, they shared a complicated web of beliefs, attitudes, prejudices, loyalties and dislikes.”

“Oliver… well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?”

“The Italians of the South live, just as Africans do, on bread dipped in olive oil.”

“On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree”

“You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.”