What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

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.

If you hurt, expect to feel the pain.

Sorry about thesquishy in your shoe. Must'vebeen something I ate.

The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas on the calculated risk and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.