Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?