Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.