“I have fallen short in my life, but my faith has always brought me home.”

“My nature has always been to fight. My faith forces me to forgive.”

“I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”

“Everything I have, my very life itself, is yours. That always has and always will extend beyond death for me.”

“My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.”

“Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences - have led to changes and development in the accents of my thought, my basic impulse, precisely during the Council, was always to free up the authentic kernel of the faith from encrustations and to give this kernel strength and dynamism. This impulse is the constant of my life ... what's important to me is that I have never deviated from this constant, which from my childhood has molded my life, and that I have remained true to it as the basic direction of my life.”