The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

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

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking.

With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong t

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.

A girl's night for me is with a member of my family on the couch, eating takeout, watching something good, going to sleep early, it's so boring, but it's just what I need!

The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.