Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.