The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

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.

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

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

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.

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.