My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

Living in stressful situations there are chemicals in your brain that are released that essentially degrade the neuron connections that allow you to function as a normal human being.

Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

Your whole life is really only all about that dear place in you where you know you’ve realized, you love, and you are reached.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.