The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.

They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.

Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data.

Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards.

paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet conscience—much cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of their fellow citizens.

If you’re in a position to lift someone off the ground

Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.

Simplicity makes me happy.

I just love music generally. If you come to my house I always have music playing.

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.