Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.
You have to be kind to yourself to survive in the world.
No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.
We have to prepare our students so that they become able to face any challenge rising in any environment and anywhere in the world.
The knowledge which we seek, the answers for which we yearn, and the strength which we desire today to meet the challenges of a complex and changing world can be ours when we willingly obey the Lord’s commandments.
The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.
I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.
Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.