In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.