Fair riches come to him who strives in ways of golden gain. And fame enshrines his name who works with genius-glowing brain; But greater glory waits for him who, in the bloodless strife 'Gainst self and wrong, adopts, in love, the sacrificial life;

Give up that narrow cramped self that seeks to render all things subservient to its own petty interests, and you will enter into the company of the angels, into the very heart and essence of universal Love.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

Love lives only by sacrifice

For Thérèse, poetry was not "art for amusement," because she did not write for her own satisfaction but out of duty, or at least with a concern to serve, to help, and to encourage.6

IN order that Love may be fully satisfied it must needs stoop to very nothingness and transform that nothing into fire.

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.