Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

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.

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.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

Adversity discourages losers

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

You might be a redneck if you watch cartoons long after your kids get bored.

My mother says healers are born, not made.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.