We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.

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.

It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice.

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!

Never focus on your problems. Focus on your possibilities. The problems will pull you down. The possibilities will push you up

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.

My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.

I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.

Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth