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

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.