Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.