Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.