For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.

I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of ancestors' by the records of history?

We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what I'd like to see done to these people

Happiness is like a butterfly.

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

You cannot be a secret and be profitable.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.