Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

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.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

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 cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.