People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother

It’s better to live in hell with the wise than in heaven with the wicked.

Your life is like a book you decide what to write on it or erase from it

I love you and I will until the end of time.And just as she said the words, two bright stars drifted past them overhead and disappeared into the night sky together…

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

The only way a show works is you find people who you think are qualified and talented and you give them a chance to do what they do.

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.