The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

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.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.