Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Marriage is a very long process.

Don't waste hate on pink geranium.

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

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.

[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.