Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.