A public is a necessary fiction.

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.

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors

Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

I don't know enough to have any regrets

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

Glory to he who brings dispute.

I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from a very early age.

Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.