Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all.

Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values and identityof foreign cultures. Tourism improves relationships between individualsand peoples; when they are cordial, respectful, and based on solidarity theyconstitute, as it were, an open door to peace and harmonious coexistence

Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death.

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.