Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I want to end.

What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone

The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system

Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth.