Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

If you really want something, you've got to keep going after it.

Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.

Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.

Almond milk + cinnamon crunch = major key to success.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

You don't die if someone doesn't like you.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.