People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.

Aaron's therapist calls him a wounded bird, but, I ask you, who wouldn't care for a wounded bird? What kind of person sees a bird with a broken wing, cat on the horizon, and walks on by?

I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced.

Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.

After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

You must remember, all stories start somewhere.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far.

Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.

The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS