Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.