“Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.”

“If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders”

“Wherever you are, be all there.”

“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.”

“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.”

“I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.”

“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important ...”