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.

We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

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.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.