Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.
Justice comes before charity.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.
The whole world is my family.
The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.
Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.
When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it’s much better now.
The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.
Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.