Pluralism isn't just diversity; it's something we create out of this diversity.

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

Those are big challenges in our age, not just how we live as co-citizens in societies with people of different faiths and different cultures - I mean, that's a big challenge itself - but how we think about all that as Christians, or as Jews, or as Muslims, or as Hindus. How do we think about the religious other? There's a theological dimension as well as a civic dimension to our pluralism.

Pluralism isn't just diversity; it's something we create out of this diversity.

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.