I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.

Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

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

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