I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in god's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of god.

I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home.