Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
From Pope John XXIII
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.
In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God.
Christian life means sacrifice.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
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