Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

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.

All her life, dreams had been her friends. Her dreams were unusually detailed, well-structured, colorful.

Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid’s life had been entirely guyless.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

The cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

Half-heartedness never won a battle.