Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

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.

A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.

Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.

Patience is underscored with forgiveness.

It's not the dying but the manner of it.

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.