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Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.

Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.

People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax.

People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.