Our system is a mess, but 90 percent of America has insurance coverage.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.

It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.

The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.

A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.

If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship.

The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.

love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.