Pope John XXIII

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”

“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.”

“In this world of ours, every believer must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying ferment for the mass; and it will be that all the more as, in the depths of his being, he lives in communion with God.”

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

“I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.”