If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.
Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
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.
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.
We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.
Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.
I am made to tremble and I fear!
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.
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.