Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about 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.

Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".

Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!

Her weight settled on her back foot as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him, now legitimately baffled.“How delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?

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You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

I'm an American who loves an America which doesn't exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.