“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.”

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

“War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.”

“Just as a child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, so is grace freely given by God, in sacred moment of salvation.”

“Pregnancy is a natural event, but you lessen the chances conception can occur with an unnatural diet.”

“When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was thinking of. It would be a monolo...”

“Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreov...”

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”