The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

A star-spangled sky and you were looking the other way, the night beckoned and waited and you waited for the day.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."

Never give up. Never stop being creative in finding ways to get exposure. Also, prepared anytime and all the time. You never know who you will run into.

Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Jesus is God but he humbled himself to walk with us. He is our friend, our brother.