Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

In order to always treat others, as we would wish to be treated ourselves, we have to learn about each other. Not just relying on an op-ed piece we may have read here, or a half-remembered interview on the television program there that happens to chime with our own views.

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.