The whole world is my family.
If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.
... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
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.
Christian life means sacrifice.
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.
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.
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 council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
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.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
