My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !

Needless to say, I was impressed by Felicia [Day] and her moxie with how to do a web series. I mean, she's the queen of the web.

We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.