A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.

May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.

Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)

You're like a plant. Very pure... so opposite from me that it surprises me. Maybe I can stay pure if I don't have to deal with people.

Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.

I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.