Truth wears a crown of thorns

If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.

Jesus loves hidden souls. A hidden flower is the most fragrant. I must strive to make the interior of my soul a resting place for the Heart of Jesus.

Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.

The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

There is no such thing as a person without brilliance.

We'll continue to work hard to do a better job in every area going forward. I don't know where those little things will come from but we'll continue to be diligent on them.

My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.