A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.

When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four.

Time elaborately thrown away.

I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

We had a lot of people say, you guys are the most ineffective legislators in Olympia and your bills never go anywhere ... They can't say that anymore, can they?

Something that I can say, "I set out to do this, however many years ago, and now I did it." That's a new thing of mine too, is just speaking things into existence.

Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.