The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution

It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

The only way to be productive is to realize we don't HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.

The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a time.

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

When you don't have your work clearly defined, there can never be any finish point.

Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

Humanity is defined by its struggles, not doomed by them. It is in the way we endure those struggles that we transcend our lower nature and enter a higher realm.

If you're as good as you're going to be, life's as good as it's going to get.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.