Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

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.

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.