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

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

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

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.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.