The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

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.

I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.

Love and hope can conquer hate.

It is not about never doubting, it is about coming out on the other side with twice the faith you had going into your doubt.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.

The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.