I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order.

I think President [Barack] Obama is exactly right, we need to combat [gun shoots] because this really can become the new normal, but that's really what's been happening.

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.