Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

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.

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

I think people realise that I'm happy with what I've achieved.

Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.