Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we believe - to serve one another, not just ourselves.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

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.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.