...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.

I found myself tumbling down a 2000-foot face and my senses were so reduced. I couldn’t hear anything. It was totally peaceful. I was totally calm.

The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact.

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.

If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one without the other.

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.