"Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask."

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

"Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life."

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

"Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him."

"The glory and the nothing of a name."

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

"It is a steadfast truth that to lead with integrity is to walk the narrow path where words and actions are one."