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.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

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

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

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 thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object Jesus, God and man, really present in the most holy Eucharist. The spirit of sacrifice, of humiliation, of scorn for self in the eyes of men, will be illuminated, supported and strengthened by the constant thought of Jesus, humiliated and despised in the Blessed Sacrament

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