The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

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.

Love is a damagemade to the heart, violence, fate thats written, Changeable by distance, Breakable by time...!

It is pain that ages us, not years.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.

In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.