Never give advice in a crowd.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day’s long.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.

The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and...

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of...

Never reach out your hand unless you’re willing to extend an arm.

Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.