There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day's work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.

The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.

When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.

the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

I died of a broken heart.Oh! And the gunshot wound to the chest!

Baby, the tumbleweeds can wait.

My philosophy of life: “Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.

...the people arrogant enough to use the words 'I understand' are the ones who can't possibly understand.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.

It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

But, I didn't get my first break until I was 17.