“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.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”

“Patience is one of the keys to success but I came to understand that you have to be patient while working not while waiting. After sowing, you still have to water your seed while waiting for the fr...”

“Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.”

“The immediate result of your infinite patience is peace”