Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . . . He makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and . . . he instills in the heart of the monk a hatred for the place, a hatred for his very life itself.

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.