Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.

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.

Being a role model is a privilege.

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

Fake it until you make it! When you're feeling bad, get dressed up - soon your inside will catch up with your outside

Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.

Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.

I'm in a Road Runner cartoon, Sinclair. And I'm the coyote.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.