Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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.

Every Intelligent person was once a fool.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

The people who control culture in China have no culture.

I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

Give me the power to produce fever and I’ll cure all disease.

I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.