If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.

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.

I hear your voice, and all feels rightwith the world again.

Soft words are hard arguments.

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.