God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

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.

Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.