"Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible."

"In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order."

"While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that."

"The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities."

"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone."

"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to."

"Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?"

"We are rarely proud when we are alone."