Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is... on a world-wide basis.