A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

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.

One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.

Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course.

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.