What I really want for my children is that they be loved and that they be happy and that they lead a good life.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

You can't go wrong with fish and chips.

What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time.

You have exactly 10 seconds to change that look of disgusting pity, into one of enormous respect!

Divine judgment is intended not to destroy but to awaken people to the devastating truth about their lives.

Death doesn’t end our devotion. It only makes it stronger.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

Power is founded upon opinion.

Russian government attacked our election.