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.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

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.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

Don't worry about tomorrow, just be real good today. The Lord is right beside you, he'll guide you all the way.

There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes.

Fish from all over the world, from deep in the sea, wind up in countries from Germany to Japan. That is just crazy.