I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

If we care for our spiritual needs, we shall find strength for any other well-being.

I also realized by the way he actually cared that I could hurt him, really hurt him, if I wanted to. That's a power no one should ever realize. It's toxic.

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.