Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

Some people think that - excuse my expression here - that in order to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits. No. Parenthood is about being responsible. This is clear.