Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

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

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

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

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.