“Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?"”

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.”

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”

“There we were right in the heart one of the largest Metropolitan Centres of the world, partaking in a gesture that was as old as the beginning of diplomatic relations between sovereign nations in so splendid a manner as must, without doubt, be such a sobering induction to any envoy to Japan. It had a tremendous impact on my outlook, and I look eagerly forward to doing, saying, advising and thinking whatever may best serve the preservation and enhancement of Fiji in Japan.”

“The most temperate of persons is the one who controls hismself, and in doubtful events is self-contained.”

“When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.”

“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”

“It is a new place to live and many new people to get to know, but one thing is always the same, and that is Jesus Christ. Our faith in Christ brings us through whatever we face and whatever he asks of us.”

“Of all the questions we can ask ourselves the most important is: how is one best to live?”

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.”