Jonathan Sacks

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

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

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?

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

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.