“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.”

“Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly.”

“Prof. Gerd Gleixner said Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in order to meet the deadline. There are only 4 weeks .”

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

“One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot / (because my truck wheels were glued / in deep mud once again), / I walked straight into / th...”

“It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.”