You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Life is like a Lamborghini. A Lamborghini has an engine, a body, and wheels. No matter how strong your engine is, if you don't have any wheels, you're not going anywhere.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.