That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!

Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.