The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

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.

Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.

Pour yourself completely into you and what brings you joy and moves you toward your goals. No one deserves your beautiful love and attention more than you!

life is not about being fearless its about controlling your fears

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith must be wrought in him by the Spirit.