Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.

At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.

People may not like you, but that's cool because your heart doesn't beat from their liking. You can't live to please everyone, you're not a puppet

The Beatitudes correspond to the Decalogue, with blessings in lieu of the forbidden.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?