This is not showing good faith, if the intent is to drag it out.

The meeting was more formal than what we'd hoped for. This is a busy time of year for everybody, and there needs to be some flexibility.

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)

Being kind at responding when someone is not nice in their voice tone, rude comments and their thoughtlessness in their speech against you takes great grace.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.