I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life.

The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.

The only thing in your hands is your life—make it as rich as possible.

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.