When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

Giving is what makes a nation great.

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

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.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.