Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a warning and in incentive to develop truly effective and peaceful means of settling tensions and disputes. Fifty years after the Second World War, the leaders of nations cannot become complacent but rather should renew their commitment to disarmament and to the banishment of all nuclear weapons.

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.