There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.