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The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

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

There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

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

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Einstein said it most famously: 'Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.'1

Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

Uncritical followership and habits of silent obedience give rise to the corruptions of power, or sometimes simply to avoidable catastrophes. For

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

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

Without God, there is a danger that we will stay trapped within the prison of the self. As

Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.

The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

When human beings try to become more than human, they quickly become less than human.

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel ...

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

the recent novel by his wife Rebecca Goldstein, entitled 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, subtitled A Work of Fiction). The

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

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

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

As Shakespeare said, 'The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.'4

Peace comes when we see our reflection in the face of God and let go of the desire to be someone else.

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

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

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

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

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

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

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.

The supreme religious challenge is to see God's image in one who is not in our image.

With wealth comes responsibility.

Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin

Giving is what makes a nation great.

Defining yourself as a victim is ultimately a diminution of what makes us human. It teaches us to see ourselves as objects, not subjects.

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

For each of us there is a Jordan we will not cross. Once

Freedom ... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

our views of the natural are shaped by our ideas of the supernatural.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

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

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.