With wealth comes responsibility.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

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.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

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