A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.

Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place: he knows he has it, and he is aware of his duty to keep it with honor, dignity, and grace.

Christ's flock is made up of sheep that not only listen to their shepherd, but are also able to recognize his voice, to follow him, faithfully and with full awareness, on the pastures of eternal life.

Christian life means sacrifice.

Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God.

Mankind is a great an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

In this world of ours every believer must be a spark of light a center of love a vivifying ferment for the mass and it will be that all the more as in the depths of his being he lives in communion with God.

Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Men are like wine some turn to vinegar but the best improve with age.

Never hesitate to hold out your hand never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.