In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.

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

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

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.