The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

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.

People who repeatedly find career success learn to broaden their perspective and understand that there are always several roads to getting where you want to go.

Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.

Perhaps Choices spring up when history makes way for them. Perhaps they will grow, like legends upon dead conquerors.

When you're taught by great people whose milestone achievements has been noted, you could only expect greatness.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.