“Routine is important, I think. A good routine diverts the mind from morbid imaginings.”

“Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else”

“I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.”

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”

“Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.”

“Imagine consultants coming into an organization to help people look at their most routine daily action … as extensions of the creative process. ”