America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.

Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain — nothing is spared them.

God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Life is not worth living unless you live it for the One who gave you life.

I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.

Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

I don't know how to let you go/ You are so deep down in my soul.

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.