The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

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

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

Theres a real power in heels and a good dress.

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.