If you want to make a difference in America, you need to be prepared for a very long, very frustrating slog.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek.

Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

It felt like a dream.

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

United need to start garnishing some points.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.