You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

If I had one wish, for who I could be, I would be a fishafloat in the sea...

It’s not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.

Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.

The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

... moral evil is its own curse.