When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

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.

A moment spent in Sorrow or a moment spent in Pain is a waste of a Great Treasure that you will never get again.

Habits are safer than rules

We have to remember all the time how wonderful life with God is so as not to lose out on our relationship with Him

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.