While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

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.

Worry is stressing about a situation that may or may not occur and it’s always in the negative sense.

A faint hearted man will always be poor

One should not inquire too closely where ancient legends about the gods are concerned

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

There is still so much drama in my life, but I'm not a sad person anymore.

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.