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

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.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

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

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.