A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

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.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

I guess one person can make a difference.

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.