On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

When we come near the light, all the darkness around us, shall disappears.

Friends are not made, but recognized.

Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed.

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).

To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.