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As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.

I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.