We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create

I want it to sound like an orange.

I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)