Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

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.

Solitude is the spirituality of the soul.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.