When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.

The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and be cared for, not just because it is good for us, but because it is the way things are.

Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.

It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.

With every step we take we have a choice to make. Our choices determine our actions. Our actions determine who we are.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

You cannot run away from what’s in your heart.

Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something.

When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.