Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

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.

I’d rather fail miserably pursuing my dreams than succeed at something I have to settle for

The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting.  Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.

Get out of your own way... stop the paralysis by analysis... dream your dream... then, WAKE UP and bring it to life!

She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.

ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage..

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

It's very hard for me to relax.

It is through an unbroken chain of witnesses that we come to see the face of Jesus.