To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.

The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.

The greatest edifice that we can erect to ourselves is to give ourselves over to building the edifices within other people in a manner that they might carry a part of ourselves, but they look nothing like ourselves.

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.

The world is not mine for the taking. Rather, it is mine for the giving.

Love understands that if we’re not giving ourselves away what we’re doing is constantly throwing ourselves away.

The kind of new beginnings that transform our lives are less about what we do in our lives, and more about what we deliver into the life of another.

Sacrifice is not setting oneself up to die. It is liberating oneself to live.

As an action, deciding to sacrifice oneself is nothing more than deciding to restore who we are by turning against what we’ve become.