“Regulations say we have to go out. They say nothing about coming back.”

“We do this job because every once in a while someone is out there without hope, desperately praying for their life, and we get to be the answer.”

“Let us take care of the children...for they have a long way to go.Let us take care of the elders...for they have come a long way.Let us take care of the in-betweens...for they are doing the work.”

“No snowflake ever lands in the wrong place.”

“The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve.”

“Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.”

“It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that cages the tiger.”