Pope John XXIII quotes

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I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.
Pope John XXIII
Death
Life
End
Now
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Pope John XXIII
Death
End
Now
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
Pope John XXIII
End
Road
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
Pope John XXIII
Life
Integrity
Man
Right
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
Dreams
Concern
Potential
Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
Pope John XXIII
People
Poor
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
Pope John XXIII
Man
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII
Heart
Eyes
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII
Proof
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
Pope John XXIII
Feelings
Company
Nothingness
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII
Family
Women
Gambling
Ruin
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIII
Equality
Peace
Trust
Nations
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Pope John XXIII
Father
Children
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Pope John XXIII
Family
Society
First
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII
Church
Beginning
Light
Now