- A family policy must be the basis and driving force of all social policies.
- A nation that kills its own children is a nation without future.
- An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
- Arms production is a serious disorder in the present world with regard to true human needs.
- As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
- Demographic considerations alone cannot explain the poor distribution of food resources. We must abandon the sophism which consists in affirming that 'being numerous means being condemned to poverty'.
- Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
- Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
- Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
- Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
- From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
- Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
- 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.
- I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
- It would be simplistic to say that Divine Providence caused the fall of Communism. In a certain sense Communism as a system fell by itself. It fell as a consequence of its own mistakes and abuses. It proved to be a medicine more dangerous than the disease itself. It did not bring about true social reform, yet it did become a powerful threat and challenge to the entire world. But it fell by itself, because of its own inherent weakness.
- Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
- Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
- Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church
- Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.
