Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

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

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

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.

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

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 family is the first essential cell of human society.