to remember the past is to commit oneself to the future… and to remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace.

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

I beg pardon from those I might have led astray or hurt. Please remember me kindly.

On my knees I beg you to turn away from the paths of violence

She wants to test herself and she likes the challenge.

boss and the kids who talk very fast.

You get to pay for it, … You guys are going to pay. Nobody wants to turn down the fire department.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

It was really majestic. The Queen Mary 2 ship is really amazing. I hadn’t really appreciated the size until I saw her arrive. The other craft that were in the water were absolutely miniscule next...

eliminate the specter of hunger from the planet.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

That was a really big win for Kerry,

This is the night of nights, the night of faith and of hope. While all is shrouded in darkness, God — the Light — keeps watch.

The pope, in his heart and with his words of encouragement, embraces all who suffer injustice.

God endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face.

Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire...

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.

Human labor cannot be treated merely as a resource necessary for production — the so-called ‘work force.’ Man cannot be regarded as a tool of production. Man is the creator of work and its craftsman.

Our season starts Saturday, … Saturday gets the ball started for us. They all know how important (the Festival) is.

Once more I express my nearness to the populations struck by the tragic cataclysm of these past days.

Open, indeed, throw open wide the doors to Christ!

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and...

I am made to tremble and I fear!

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.

Peace is the most precious good

give new impulse to the fight of the international community against hunger.

It’s definitely a pride issue now, … Nobody wants to be on the team that ends that streak.

The Holy Father reiterates his firm and absolute disapproval of such actions that offend God, violate the fundamental right to life and undermine peaceful coexistence.

It is very good.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic...

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

When the good of science or economic interests prevail over the good of the person, and ultimately of whole societies, environmental destruction is a sign of a real contempt for man.

I ask carriers: ‘How well do I handle detention issues? Rate me on detention.’ Once you start talking about these topics, carriers realize that you’re not hiding from the issues.

deeply grieved by the fact that priests and religious have themselves caused such suffering and scandal among the young.

In those difficult times, we asked that His power might be poured into the hearts of men and women and that hope might be stirred in them. Is not all that happened at that time...

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not enter a strange house but their own.

It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom...

Let me go to the house of the Father.

If we see opportunities to improve relationships with shippers, we work with them.

I renew the appeal I made most recently at Christmas for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.

I urge you to adopt a policy of zero tolerance for all offenders, whether they have abused one child or adolescent or many, whether past, present or future.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.

The enemy of the human race…invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God’s word of Salvation to the people.

Christ is truly risen! In him, today, we can overcome forces of evil.