“Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we to keep it in one piece, as a pot! All jobs are ours! Life only gives things and it has no other responsibility!”
“I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.”
“Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.”
“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holdswhatever we want.”
“Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.”
“Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.”