It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

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.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.

I love to work. I'll work all the time, unless somebody stops me. I love it, love it, love it!

Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.

Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.

Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.

The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.

There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world.