(23 quotes found)
“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
Pope John XXIII
“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
“If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light”
“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.”
“The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.”
“It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.”
“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.”
“Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.”
“Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.”
