It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

The past is what the present is doing now.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, "How long shall I hope on this fashion?" when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?

And the thing about trying to cheat death is that, in the end, you still lose.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

In a sense Toronto feels like home to me.

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.