Pain now is better than pain deferred.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

The more attention Hillary Clinton gives to the country, the less people seem to like her.

I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks.

Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe. So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word sinful is most commonly associated with chocolate.