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

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

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

Giving is what makes a nation great.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.