Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a messy human life without being ashamed of loving someone.

The umbrella won't stop the rain, but it will help you to get out during rainfall. As well as confidence is not going to guarantee your success, but it will give you the opportunity to achieve it...

I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.