Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness.

The increase in the world's population represents our victory over death.

We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

The cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.

I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

Trump will give you the robust bull: 25,000 on the Dow in the first term.

Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.

Assholes tend to stick together, and once stuck are not easily separated.

Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.

People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

The problem is the Palestinians don't recognize the legitimacy of Israel.

We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.

It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.

Medication should never be considered the only tool for helping a person.

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they've ever done.

Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.

I open 'Mindset' with examples of kids who thrive on difficult challenges.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.

Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years

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