To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.