Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

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.

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

Live the rest of your life in possibility

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

Your personality is a tool of your soul.

It was her. It was Teresa.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.

Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.