If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.

Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.