God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

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

People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.