On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.

You know the people, " said Pamela, "who say, 'Of course I love reading, but I've no time, alas!' as if everyone who loves reading doesn't make time.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth

When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.

Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He would be hot 'til the day he died. Seriously.

There was magic in the air tonight, and something incredible was about to happen–Kelly just sensed it.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.