Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do.

Then there was like quiet and we were full of like hate, so smashed what was left to be smashed.

I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul

She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!

That's why I'm a success, it's because I don't middle in other people's lives.

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.