“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”

“Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.”

“Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs a gross if we are, about to believe.”

“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.”

“I want us to enter into the laughter of the God that is before, during and after the experience of being human, to swim in grace, to revel in messiness, to find joy in the suffering and love in the chaos.”

“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”

“Without the family, we are helpless before the State.”