"The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name"
- John Paul II
"There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little."
"Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself."
"God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will."
"Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well."
"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..."
"A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love."
"Faced with today's problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape..."