The family is the first essential cell of human society.

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

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.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.