The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

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.

Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color