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

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

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