"Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time."

“When men make gods, there is no God!”

“I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.”

“I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.”

“Love who you are and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you.”

“You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off pint-sized salesfolk or tie-with-short-sleeved-shirt-wearing adults. But if you are going to answer the door in your own house, what's wrong with being armed? What makes people feel entitled to a kid-friendly greeting when they disturb random strangers in their homes?”

“Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.”

“Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.”

“We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.”

Source : Pope Paul VI “Insegnamenti di Paolo VI.”