All we are asked to bear we can bear.

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.