The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

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

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.

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

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.

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

Crisis is Good. Crisis is a Messenger.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

I'm going to go out there and be who I am, and if you don't like it, then watch somebody else.

It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.

don't do things that kill you.

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

If a person perceives a situation as real, it is real in its consequences.