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

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.

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.

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.