We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

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.

Your connection to yourself is also your connection to the divine. The more you are connected to yourself, the more you are connected to the divine. They are one and the same.

the problem at this point is that there is a problem.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel So am I.'- Rudy

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.