Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

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.

Be contented as what you are even if it is big or small, great or not, 'cause it's still a blessings.

His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.

Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.