After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

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.

If your parents left you, it doesn’t mean that other people will also do it to you.

Does it matter whether it was a dream or a reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

Its okay to have a job that fits your passions, we don't have to suffer for money.

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.

At eighteen you sleep without memories.

Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.