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

“We deem it opportune to remind our children of their duty to take an active part in public life and to contribute toward the attainment of the common good of the entire human family as well as to that of their own political community. They should endeavor, therefore, in the light of their Christian faith and led by love, to insure that the various institutions—whether economic, social, cultural or political in purpose—should be such as not to create obstacles, but rather to facilitate or render less arduous man’s perfecting of himself in both the natural order and the supernatural.... Every believer in this world of ours must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying leaven amidst his fellow men. And he will be this all the more perfectly, the more closely he lives in communion with God in the intimacy of his own soul”

“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.”

“Prayer is the raising of the mind to God.We must always remember this.The actual words matter less.”

“... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.”

“Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”

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