When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

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

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

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