I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

Humility is recognizing the fullness of our sin, so we can embrace the fullness of God's mercy.

Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.

I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.

A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

It's so hard for women to be happy for one another, like genuinely happy. Once you find that, you know you've found true SELF happiness.