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

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

I love my family.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.