The future starts today, not tomorrow.
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.