Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

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.

Waiting for God to give you want He has ALREADY decided for you and waiting for someone to decide on you--is NOT the same.

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!

The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.

Images, not words, capture feelings in faces; nothing can ruin the atmosphere as easily as too much light.