Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.

Lies are for adults who are sad in their lives.

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.

Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me.

I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet.

Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularism/Islamism.