“The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.”

“Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.”

“Pope John Paul II once said as well, “Lebanon is a message more than it is a country.” Now this diversity has turned into fragmentation and the richness into poverty, awaiting a miraculous remedy.”

“I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”

“On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of an especially personal and "sharing" nature (cf. analysis of the "beginning"), to which a proportionate pyramid of values corresponds. On the other hand, "lust" limits this gamut, obscuring the pyramid of values that marks the perennial attraction of male and female.”

“The term 'person' has been coined to signify that a man cannot be wholly contained within the concept 'individual member of the species', but that there is something more to him, a particular richness and perfection in the manner of his being, which can only be brought out by the use of the word 'person'.”

“Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.”

“Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.”

“The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name”

“Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.”

“A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.”