When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.

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.

Spirituality is not creating boundaries but creating space for others to come into your life.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

In the realm of faith, there is no fear.

Social media: a fine tool for radicalised idiots to find each other, a promised land for the pub bores and Champ Man anoraks of the nation.

God does not flunk any of His children. He just re-enrolls them.

I want it all - and I would like it delivered.

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.