Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

Listening to your heartbeats, I will fall asleep.

Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through ones contribution.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

The past lives through us. We are its legacy.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.