Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

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

When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is... on a world-wide basis.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

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

I am made to tremble and I fear!