I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

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

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Don't be afraid to wake up your dream... give it a hard nudge, a toss of cold water... make it leap, make it fly. Dreams won't come to life without action.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.

I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

I like cream cheese in just about anything.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.