America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.

When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.

Your destination should determine who you choose as friend

Had there been a computer a hundred years ago it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.

We must never edit God.

This soup tastes like windows

I love what I know about passion, I love what I know about mercy, I love what I know about patience, I love what I know about soul, and I know you.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.