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

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.

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.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

From personal adversity comes great art

The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.

If you want to change anything or your surroundingChange your perception, it will change everything.

Masturbation is always very safe. You not only control the person you're with, but you can leave when you want to.

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.

All confessions are Odysseys.