I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."