The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

To set goals and pursue them, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think to be impossible.

Ground control to Major Tom.

It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

It‘s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.