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

On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard.

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of seeing. As Einstein put it, 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.'

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

Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from one moment to the next. We possess multiple selves that are aroused by different circumstances.

Pain now is better than pain deferred.