The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it.

One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.

It's quite a thrill to see it coming to life on stage.

Once you become a vegan, the food of the world opens up to you.