People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's the foundation of certainly most pop-psychology, and of a lot of psychotherapy, cognitive therapy. So that, I think, is the greatest truth.

If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.

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

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.