“If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in he...”

“I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.”

“You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.”

“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”

“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”

“I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.”

“Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.”

“Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.”

“I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.”

“I'm patient.”

“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”

“I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.”

“Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!”

“As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him.”

“On what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of apratikraman' (the mistake for which pratikraman was not done).”