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.
Interpretation
This quote humorously reflects on the weight of leadership and the absurdity of one's own importance.
Pope John XXIII's quote captures a moment of unexpected self-realization, where he jests about the burden of responsibility that comes with being a leader. In the middle of contemplating serious issues, he humorously forgets his own position of authority, illustrating how the pressures of leadership can sometimes feel overwhelming and lead to moments of lightness.
In practice
Use this quote to lighten the mood during a leadership conference.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.
I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.
And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope.
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
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