A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. Admiral Bill McRaven (Navy SEAL)

I must walk right up to my last moment.

Offer to God the sacrifice of never gathering any fruit. If He will that throughout your whole life you should feel a repugnance to suffering and humiliation—if He permit that all the flowers of your desires and of your good will should fall to the ground without any fruit appearing, do not worry. At the hour of death, in the twinkling of an eye, He will cause fair fruits to ripen on the tree of your soul.

Serving brings great rewards, but sometimes those rewards come gift-wrapped in trying situations. Those who lovingly serve others can end up feeling like crash dummies designed specifically to discover the heat, force, and pain tolerance of some new product.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.