The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.

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

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform.