“A loss doesn’t turn into a lesson unless we work hard to make it so.”

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”

“Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.”

“You will not be able to enjoy a good night’s sleep unless you’ve worked hard during the day”

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”

“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.”

“The lesson Buddha and Marcus Aurelius had taught centuries earlier: "Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it."”

“Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing. we have power. but we will never know it, we will never see it work. unless we come together to make it work.”

“I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents […] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. […] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.”