“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.”

“My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.”

“Often I return to the grave after leaving flowers tulips, lilies, carnations to find the heads eaten by deer. Its just as good a use for the flowers as any, and one Paul would have liked. The ear...”

“With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put there.”

“Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.(from "Gratitude")”

“Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the past is dead.”

“In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silencewishing, waiting, hoping, praying.”

“At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!”