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

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

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

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.