Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking.

With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

Sometimes my helpless blood runs numb and, if only for a second, I forget how frail bones can be.

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think will have MAD stamped across it.

Leadership is all about people … and getting the most out of people.

In front of you I commit myself to serve my country with devotion.

Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

When George Bush finally leaves the White House, the satire industry will briefly join the rest of the economy in recession. It will certainly be the end of an era.

What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.