Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

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

I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.

The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.