Some "popely" quotes to guide us, and the curent pope:

"Silence gives consent"

Pope Boniface VIII

"The future starts today, not tomorrow."

Pope John Paul II

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."

Pope John Paul II
                                
"Anything done for another is done for oneself."

Pope John Paul II

"Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity."

Pope John XXIII

"If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light"

Pope John XXII

"It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope."

Pope John XXIII