Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

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?

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

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

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.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.