Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

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.

Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!

A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.

Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.

The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out.

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

[On her husband:] The other day he woke up with a headache. I felt sorry for him. I would like to help him but I can't. I told him so many times. When he jumps out of bed - it should be feet first.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.