Pope John XXIII

“The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.”

“We are not on Earth to guard a museum, but to cultivate a flourishing garden of life.”

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”

“If God created shadows, it was to better emphasize the light.”

“Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity, and to the means which are necessary and suitable for the proper development of life.”

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.”

“Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.”

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

“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”

“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.”

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

“A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.”