The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

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.

Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.

Wise men speak because they have something to say

If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?

The magic of a tree is metaphorical. It celebrates its place. I brings comfort and beauty. Trees celebrate life.

With us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives