It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

God made the water but men made the wine.