Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God's Word.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

A boy has to peddle his book.