Quotes by Pope John XXIII

“The heart is forever making the head its fool.”

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

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

“It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.”

“Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.”

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

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

“The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.”

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

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

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

You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.

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

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

The whole world is my family.

See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.

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.

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

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

The family is the first essential cell of human society.