Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.

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.

Decisions are never made in retrospect, hence there is no point regretting them, ever.

With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.

As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.

Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.