Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.