Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

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.

You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Sympathy is the charm of human life.

The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

I knew I shouldn't have given @50cent pitching advice...sorry man

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

When life feels like a yoyo, no matter the ups or the downs know that you'll always end up in the hands of Almighty God.