Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

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.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

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.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

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.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

The family is the first essential cell of human society.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
- Pope John XXIII Quote

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
- Pope John XXIII Quote