Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

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.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

DON'T BE SO PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE, TO THE POINT YOU FIND YOURSELF UNPREPARED FOR THE VICTORY!WHEN YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, YOU PREPARE FOR IT ALL!

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

I like to travel in jeans because I don't want to wallow around in my suit, you know? They cost too much. Jeans are comfortable.

My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.