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

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.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.