We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.

The measure of a man consists less in his present perfection than in his willingness to be perfected. A man will be remembered most, not for his accomplishments, but for his character.

People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how well it works, just about how right it is … they may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

I grew up kind of rough, without very much. So, I just want to work as hard as I can so my kids won't have to go through what I did.

In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

I havent really eaten breakfast since high school.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.