No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

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.

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.

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.

When a word of God is spoken it will always be personal and yet we will find it touching the lives of others in some most amazing ways

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

We can't have iPads until after 7 p.m. Otherwise the entire day is, "iPad time? What about now?" It makes me crazy. And no TV on weekend mornings.

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

Happiness is not something you find, but rather something you create.