Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.

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

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.