Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

Until you know that life is interesting and find it so you haven't found your soul.

We create our own reality through our thoughts, emotions and beliefs.

Human rights don't trickle down.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.