“Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.”

“Guide us in the path of peace, O Lord!”

“Work while you have strength.”

“Do all the work you can while you still have strength.”

“Do all the work you can, while there is grace of strength.”

“Thank God for the strength to work.”

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

“The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.”

“Neither compares nor competes. Be creative.”

“God is the only one that won't disappoint you. Everyone else is percentages of your peace.”

“You deserve respect and appreciation. A person who doesn't have respect for themselves will more than likely not give it to you. You have to set the standard for yourself by not allowing the insole...”

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”

“Lucian's father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day's work, they were left to their vices and the doubts that crowded their head. Their hatred. Their envy.”

“She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those ...”

“We may be just a drop in the ocean, but even the ocean envies the depth of our love.”