Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by chance.

Now that I have made peace with the imperfections, I no longer look around for happiness. I found the eternal happiness that has always been there, somewhere within me!

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.