“If you would ask me what to study I would say, yourselves; and when you well had studied them, and then would ask me what to study next, I would reply, yourselves.”

“I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.”

“She had asked the older women: "What is that fire?" And they had replied: "It is we who are burning.”

“What intelligent things you say sometimes ! One would think you had studied.”

“I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.”

“What would you do if you could fly?" Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me. "Is that on the quiz?" I ask, grinning as I type."I think we've studied just about everything else." Mrs. V chuckles."I'd be scared to let go," I type."Afraid you'd fall?" she asks."No. Afraid it would feel so good, I'd just fly away.”

“Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.”