There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied.

Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.

Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.

Pray greatly.Pray gladly.Pray graciously.Pray gallantly.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.

The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.

I know my body better than anything, better than anybody.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.