Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.