Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
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.
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
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...
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
The whole world is my family.
If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.