I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with her intimates within the zone of trust. It's just the wall outside the zone of trust is so impermeable.

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.