If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

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

I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.

I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.