Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.

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.

A business that is not growing after all, is dying.

He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald)

How one lives during limited time on earth's school is perhaps how one may dwell in the space of eternity.

And since He bids me seek His face Believe His word and trust His grace I'll cast on Him my every care And wait for thee sweet hour of prayer.

I talk about therapy a lot because I love therapy. It has just enriched my life.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Everyone has a bad hair day; the trick is not to have one on picture day.

We all have wings, but it is up to each one of us to have the courage to fly

Not every corporation is a great bunch of people. Like in any group of people, you're gonna have bad apples, bad actors here and there.