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

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

I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

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